Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?

Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo

William Shakespeare

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

David Suzuki

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Zoe Kazan

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

John French

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:

Will Durant

The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life.

Steven Redhead

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Augustine Birrell

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan