Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Jon Landau

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.

Cassandra Clare

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Doug Evelyn

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Ambrose Bierce

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

B. C. Forbes

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

G. K. Chesterton

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

J.K. Rowling

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Cassandra Clare