My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Lord Byron

Love fades. Mine has.

Richelle Mead

But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.

Albert Einstein

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Norman Mailer

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Ian Mcewan

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana