We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

Never compromise your values.

Steve Maraboli

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

Jorge Luis Borges, cited in A bi

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Bob Dylan

Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.

Bill Shankley, Liverpool FC

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

Lawrence Welk

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

George Herbert

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Samuel Johnson

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Muhammad Ali

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

Tony Kushner