Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Which of the Himalayas is the shortest?

Steven Wright

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Paula Fox

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Kim Cattrall, Interview by Dan S

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates

I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart.

Hans Keller

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Louis Farrakhan

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Layne Staley

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William Shatner

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Evenus

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts -- for him traditional -- by which he finds it profitable to represent to himself what is happening when he receives the bread and wine. I could wish that no definitions had ever been felt to be necessary; and, still more, that none had been allowed to make divisions between churches.

C.S. Lewis

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Richard Ford