I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Christopher Earle

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Plato

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Thomas Hobbes

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

Amy Grant

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

Derek Walcott

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Flora Edwards

I won't eat anything green.

Kurt Cobain

During life's crisis...try to worry less and smile more.

Timothy Pina

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

Cate Blanchett

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Claude LeviStrauss

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Ed Bradley