There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Sam Shepard

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Charles M. Schulz

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Rita Dove

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Greta Gerwig

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

Proverb

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

Gemma Arterton

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

Sanford I. Weill

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Mahatma Gandhi