If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

If you really believe that all men are created equal, you are comfortable in any company.

Michael Lipsey

I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-

John Green

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

James Allen

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

T. D. Jakes

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Gillian Anderson

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Phyllis Diller

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

Will Smith

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

George Crook

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Henry Adams