There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

In the heart and in the soul, evil takes its wicked toll. When moonlight shines like flowing blood, over the earth, the Daimons will flood

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.