"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester."

“The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.”

“Have I done what is really important today?”

“Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.”

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

“Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?”

“I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.”

Source : 2000 On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times, 7 Mar.

“We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.”

“Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.”

Source : Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.4, Hendrickson Publishers

“I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.”

Source : "Picking Through the Ruins: How Do We Stop The DRC’s War Against Women" by Lynn Nottage, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2009.