I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

J. William Fulbright

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Aldous Huxley

Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Lou Holtz

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Anna Godbersen

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

William Congreve, The Old Bachel

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis