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The road to your soul is through your heart.

Love is a simple word with a complicated meaning

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta ...

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some of these girls, they ...

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a ...

They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only to ...

It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants ...

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, ...

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced ...

Danger is real, fear is a choice

So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has the right to do as He pleases with His own, and He ...

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film ...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an ...

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far ...

Senator Obama will be taking office at a critical juncture. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and ...

That's ironic, because I always thought you were the ugliest out of all the angels.

I know this is going to sound really cheesy, but I have the coolest dad in the entire world. My dad is hilarious. He's also ...

I'm afraid you're going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I'd buy a couple of good books. ...

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

Sugar activates the same area of the brain that is activated while a person is consuming drugs such as cocaine.

Tell me yes," he ordered huskily. "Tell me yes and I'll do whatever you want. Anything you want. Just let me do this.

The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to ...

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Their voices were just murmurs, the distant music that a conversation makes when it's too dim for words.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' ...

It's a book, jackass.

I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the ...

Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's ...

If you tell the story you will live the story. If you live the story you have to own the story. If you dont like ...

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she ...

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of ...

Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know ...

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

I'm a very serious person.

I got married, going to become father soon, being No. 1 in the sport that I love with all my heart. I mean, it's pretty ...

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Your heavenly Father has known you from your mother's womb. Only He really understands you and the things that have fought hard to wound your ...

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed ...

When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you ...

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I've been doing a lot of drugs in the last few weeks and drinking less, and I feel much better.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

I intend to live forever, so far so goodbecause of my senectitude my forgettery is working hard

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to ...

Leo," Jason said, "you're weird.""Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all ...

Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is ...

Faith Is Not Credulity.

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy.Billy Mitchell

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.-Emerson

I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from ...

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come ...

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell ... I love them.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a ...

You think this is funny?" I snorted. "You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don't get you.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.

Your Presentation is Your Capability.

I run 5 miles every night. It's where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that's been poured into me ...

There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the ...

...cool and nonchalant, like none of this mattered anyway. Is that what guys really wanted? Or was it just what the girls thought the guys ...

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece ...

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an ...

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take ...

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant I try ...

With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

Many young Christians admire the words and works of Jesus (information) but do not know him as Lord and God (wisdom). They read and respect ...

I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm ...

Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a ...

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever ...

The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.

I must keep moving forward.

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.