How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Irwin Shaw

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

Adrien Brody

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Benjamin Franklin

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

James Fenimore Cooper

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

Julia Roberts

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

Cited in Fundamentals of Political Science

Leonid Brezhnev

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.

Josh Holloway

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson