"Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes."

“Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.”

“It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.”

“Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,”

Source : "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.

“I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.”

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”

“Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.”

“All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.”

“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”

Source : Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.174, Vintage