Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

Louise Slaughter

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Kary Mullis

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Joey Adams

If you think you're smart,think twice to be smarter.

Toba Beta

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Mark Twain

All the risks have been taken. Allowing me room to fly.

Coco J. Ginger

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Orson Scott Card

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Anaxagoras

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

Leslie Moonves