You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

J. William Fulbright

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Herman Melville

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Deepak Chopra

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

August Wilson

My father said When in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Mercedes Ruehl

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

Matthew Vaughn

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

Ian Somerhalder

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant