Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Jane Austen

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Robin Tunney

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Paula Poundstone

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney J. Harris

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Olympia Dukakis

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Tenneva Jordan

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot

The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable.

Steve Maraboli