We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

Alannah Myles

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Francis H. Bradley

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Ernest Hemingway

I have a lot of faith in people.

John Lithgow

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Ang Lee

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

Sean Durkin

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

Chris Brown

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Jack Miller

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.

Proverb