You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

Selma Blair

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Garrett Hardin

To die, to sleep To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

William Shakespeare

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Frank Bruno

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

Daisaku Ikeda

Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Fred Frith

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

African Proverb

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Helen Hayes

To him who, in the love of Nature, holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.

William Cullen Bryant, Thanatops

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

John Green