The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

John Thune

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

Suzanne Collins

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Gary Chapman

If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...http://www.weyrd.org/lilies.html

Japanese Proverb, from Lilies Wo

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Johann von Goethe

To be somebody you must last.

Ruth Gordon

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

Rob James-Collier

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

Immanuel Kant

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

Leonard Maltin