There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma.""You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

I heard the voice of Jesus say

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.