Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Christina Ricci

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Stephen Covey

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Jane Austen

To win you have to risk loss.

Jean Claude Killy

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Nagarjuna

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.

Christopher Hitchens

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Francis Bacon

America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Claire Wolfe

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

David Mamet

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

Ralph Waldo Emerson