Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Margaret Mead

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred A. Allen

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Beyonce Knowles

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Isabelle Adjani

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Minoru Yamasaki

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

George A. Romero

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Michael Brian Schiffer

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

John Salazar

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard