There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

After dark all cats are leopards.

American Indian Proverb, Zuni

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

Julia Roberts

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Bavee

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

Lemony Snicket

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Rita Rudner

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Laura Linney

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

James Beattie

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

George Clooney

I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.

Henny Youngman

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher