All isms end in fascism.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

Love is blind but not deaf.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

For nothing was simply one thing.