When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Ernest Hemingway

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Austin O'Malley

We all have problems...everyone does.The only people that don't have any are buried in cemeteries. Rise above your problems and enjoy your life. Change the way you think and you will.

Timothy Pina

A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.

Neil Strauss

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Joey Lauren Adams

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard Milhous Nixon

My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

Jeffrey Tambor

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Mark Hoppus

A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

Orson Scott Card

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire