I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

Orson Scott Card

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Anna Chlumsky

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people.

Bible

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

W. C. Fields

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Orson Scott Card

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus, Punica

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

Hal Sparks

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. LeGuin