On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.

There was no opiate like a French pillow.

To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

Talk helps shape one's thoughts.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

You are free because I am freePetra HermansSeptember 26, 2016

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.