The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Jane Austen

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Peter Kropotkin

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Lantos

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Source Unknown

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Joan Allen

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Kevyn Aucoin

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

Stephen Sommers

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Benjamin Franklin

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Henry Huxley

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Tony Bright