"Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication."

“I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.”

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

“Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.”

“By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.”

“Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey (1968). “Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays”, p.28, Charles Sander Peirce

“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”

Source : Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

“God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124, 1895.

“Oscove?" Valek paused. "He didn't have the stomach for it.”

“It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.”