The thing that most people didn't understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Marcus Aurelius

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

Youssou N'Dour

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.

Source Unknown

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

Yogi Bhajan

norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found homer sprawled in a ditch out by homeland cemetary, beaten to death with his own artificial arm.

Stephen King

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Julia Roberts

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

Loretta Young

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Will Rogers

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran, "My Soul Is Heavy