My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

O. J. Simpson

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

Terry O'Quinn

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.

Van Hartmann

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

Show me what I have to do, Every hour my strength renew; Let me live a life of faith, Let me die Thy people's death.

John Newton

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

Erin Morgenstern

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Tacitus

THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

Too much zeal spoils everything.

Proverb

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

Aleister Crowley