As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

Willa Cather

Ben Says: No matter how long you've been traveling down a wrong road...you always have time to turn back.Now...just do it!

Timothy Pina

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

Brit Marling

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Richard Milhous Nixon

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Ron Livingston

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Jane Austen

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

John Green

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

Karolina Kurkova

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Kiefer Sutherland

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Robert J. Mckain

I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters.

Steven Wright