No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

John Updike

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

Rob Brydon

A person cries out from pain when he takes up hard physical work after a period of idleness. Any rest from the struggle for spiritual improvement brings the same pain.

Leo Tolstoy

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Xun Zi

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.

Orson Scott Card

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Gertrude Stein

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Vivien Leigh

I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

Reading is not optional.

Walter Dean Myers