The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

Diligence is the mother of luck.

Ben Franklin

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

Amy Irving

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Alexander Payne

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Lionel Richie

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Charles Dickens

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

Horace Bushnell

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.

Ambrose Bierce

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Charlie Sheen

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Albert Camus

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Earl Warren