"Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually."

“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.”

“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”

“I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.”

“There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar”

“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

“One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.”

Source : "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the pasty. Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. We have done everything that could he done to avert the storm, which is now coming on. If we wish to be free we must fight, I repeat, we must fight.”