We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

George Lucas

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Charley Pride

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Lillie Langtry

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

Stephen Richards

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

Ally Carter

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Ellis Peters

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Jon Crosby

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.

Rodney Dangerfield