My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Charles de Secondat

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

Christopher Nolan

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Sigmund Freud

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Robert Frost

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Diane di Prima

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Neil Gaiman

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

Sara Paxton

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Selma Blair

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

W. H. Auden

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Jim Wallis