This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Alfred Jarry

also found in Daily Reflections for the day October 7

Bill Wilson, Twelve Steps and Tw

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Sparks are warm while they last.

Susan Price

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

Joe Theismann

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

Sigmund Freud

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Sophie Kinsella

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Christine Gregoire

Force is not a remedy.

John Bright

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

Charles F. Bass

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

Elizabeth Pena