I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Eric Hoffer

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Anthony Hitt

Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.

Edward R. Lyman

Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot question like,

Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad, ch. 5,

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Forest Whitaker

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

Kate Walsh

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Vivienne Westwood

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

James Madison

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making The Appaloosa a good movie.

Dylan McDermott

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon