Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama XIV

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Hans Selye

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

Leonard Boswell

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

Lawrence Kasdan

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Jane Porter

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. On filming MacHale's Navy

Bruce Campbell

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Jodi Picoult

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Mark Twain

Autumn is my favorite season.

Johnny Kelly

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway