The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.

Albert Camus

. . . simplicity in its pure form can lighten up the tough.

Dr. Bee

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Darrell Royal

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.

David Morrell

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

John Stuart Mill

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Samuel Johnson

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Billy Wilder