Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

Alexander McCall Smith

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edward W. Howe

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Edmund Burke

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Shelley Berman

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Jane Badler

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

Boris Pasternak

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Theodore Bikel

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Gita Bellin

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Stephen King

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Persius

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Steve Winwood