Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

Alexander Payne

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Harry Weinberger

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.

Steve Maraboli

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nevell Bovee

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Jeffrey Kluger

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

William John Wills

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.

Steve Maraboli

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Alan Rickman

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Henry David Thoreau

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Herman Hesse

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

George Strait

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Charles Montesquieu