We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

After a bad trip, don't carry your luggage on board the next flight. Stay grounded til you figure out a new way to travel.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe.John A. Wheeler

Walk this way

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

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