Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

Vicente Fox

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

Matthew Morrison

There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

African Spir

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

Emily Blunt

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Paul A. Samuelson

I learn from experience.

Alan Dershowitz

Progress is the stride of God.

Victor Hugo

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

David Sedaris