Dharma Shastra Quotes

#1. In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also by experience. Second: there's no single gene for grit, or indeed any other psychological trait.

Angela Duckworth

#2. Who were my fictitious witches and what did they mean? Never ask that of yourself while writing. It may stop you cold. Just trust that if you believe in your characters, others will too. ... Whenever I thought too critically about my work, I couldn't write.

Erica Jong

#3. I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

John Cheever

#5. Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible ...

Walter Stanley Mooneyham

#6. It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Mary Shelley

#7. What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

Richard Saul Wurman

#8. Life is spirit.
Life ends when our spirit departs from the body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

Jess Walter

#10. The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

Ziggy Marley

#11. I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Halle Berry