It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edward Gibbon

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

William Hazlitt

I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men

George Eliot

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel

If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.

C. JoyBell C.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Matthew Arnold

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Earl Nightingale

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII from

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

Krista Allen

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Laurence Sterne