I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Marcel Proust

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adler

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Bernard Wolfe

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

James Fenton

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

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When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

Jeff Gordon

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

Matthew J. Kirby

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Geraldine Ferraro

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

Alanis Morissette