"My schedule has not calmed down, but I'm definitely not so devastated as I used to be. Definitely cooler now. A lot of blessings have fallen into my lap, and I'm very thankful to receive all of them."

“The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all?”

“It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.”

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

“Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maggie O'Connell". "Northern Exposure" ("Mite Makes Right"), Season 5, Episode 13, 1994.

“I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can”

“It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”