People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.