I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Jerry Gillies

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

Stephen Chbosky

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Erwin Frand

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Reeve Carney

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Nadia Comaneci

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

Lynn Fontanne