Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

Mike Leavitt

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Louis Nizer

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

William O. Douglas

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

John Green

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Jason Reitman

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.

E. M. Forster

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Deborah Norville

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

Anna Quindlen

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Camille Desmoulins

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician

Robert Penn Warren