But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

Catherine Bell

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Albert Einstein

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

Orson Scott Card

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Abraham Maslow

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Billy Wilder

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Busy Philipps

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Joan D. Vinge

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Elizabeth Gaskell