I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

There's no better makeup than confidence

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.