We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Anna Chlumsky

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Source Unknown

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Samuel Gompers

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

Jodi Picoult

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Pierre de Coubertin

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

R. D. Laing

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honore de Balzac

We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.

Proverb

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson