Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

Joely Richardson

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Kim Weston

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God, Who gives and asks no payment.

Richard Hovey

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

Jeff Bridges

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.

Gary Parker

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

M. Scott Peck

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Francesca Lia Block