Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.

Christopher Hitchens

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

William Hazlitt

Arnold: I have taught myself to sew, cook, fix plumbing, I can even pat myself on the back when necessary, so I don't have to ask anyone for anything. There's nothing I need from anyone except for love and respect. And anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.

Harvey Fierstein

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Anon.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Elie Wiesel

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Thomas Nashe

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Chris Rock

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Marcus Aurelius

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the fIrst stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.quoted by Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale in his talk entitled: The Stoic Warrior's Triad: Tranquility, Fearlessness, and Freedom.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Arc

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

James Grant

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie