No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Anon.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Julia Cameron

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Nina LaCour

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

Mike Singletary

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

Mary O'Connor

Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Publilius Syrus

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Joe Baca

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

William Ellery Channing

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

Fred Upton

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

Michael Caine

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

Josh Hutcherson