It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few

Benjamin Franklin

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Studs Terkel

I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me. I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me. And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows And I love the garden rose.

Becky Stark

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger

I wished to dub as Masters: Love, Truth, Serenity. They'd feed and house and teach me with total sovereignty.

Vanna Bonta

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Haley Joel Osment

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Possession

God makes it all come right in the end, that's what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted company. I was raised a Christian-I admit I fell away a bit along my journey-and I believe that: we're stuck with what we have, but that's all right; in God's eyes, none of us are really much more than flies on strings and all that matters is how much sunshine you can spread along the way.

Stephen King

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb

Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. 1 I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively. 2

Thomas Jefferson

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

Pitbull