The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

Hilary Duff

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Xun Zi

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

Woody Allen

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority

Henry David Thoreau

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honore de Balzac

I do desire we may be better strangers.

William Shakespeare

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

David Lynch

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

John Adams

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Antonin Dvorak

I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Wendell Willkie