The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

Benjamin Franklin

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida, Ac

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Ambrose Bierce

A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.

William Mountford

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

Johnny Knoxville

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Orson Scott Card

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.

Diablo Cody

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Eriq La Salle

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Bob Geldof