I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Khalil Gibran

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

Scott Baio

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it -- because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

Colonel Harland Sanders

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Eoin Colfer

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Adlai Stevenson

It was just the most amazing thing, right there in our camp.

Stephen Richards

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Hugh Mackay

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger