The more vividly we imagine the greatness and the beauty of what we love, the more timid we are. - Stendhal

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

Phil Jackson

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

Joyce Maynard

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

George Borrow

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Anna Chlumsky

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Melvin R. Laird

Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes

Mark Twain

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Langston Hughes

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Charles Sanders Pierce