Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

H. Stanley Judd

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo

My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

Jeff Foxworthy

Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,when I come backwe will go out together,we will walk out together among,the ten thousand things,each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

Galway Kinnell

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jose Bergamin

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

Jamie Luner

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Mary McDonnell

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Bethenny Frankel

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

Chris O'Donnell

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers