Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

And the tree was happy

Shel Silverstein

Form follows beauty.

Oscar Niemeyer

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Allen Klein

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

Anna Chennault

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

Norbert Wiener

?Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Jodi Picoult

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Harvey Fierstein

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Joe Barton

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

Alan Ladd

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Eric Hoffer

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

John Frankenheimer