It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

The little bit you and me might change the world, " Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.

There is so much power in not been easily fazed and having the will to go on no matter what. I pray for "bottomless tenacity".

I've been living in the shadow of empty people for far too long. Now I need to find chests full of wild lilies, minds full of wonder, hearts full of light.

Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.

Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Our dreams are waiting for US... to come true!

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl