As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Paul Auster

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money . and if you have money , or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

Henry Miller

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Francis Herbert Hedge

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Thomas Fuller

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

Peter Hammill

He is the light in my life and the rock beneath my feet. (Referring to the Lord Jesus)

Kimberly McRae

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

Michael Emerson

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

Kate Upton

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Frank Borman

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

Barry White

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Robin Wright Penn