Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

George Orwell

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression.

Nicholas Dodman

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

Corin Nemec

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Gerald W. Grumet