The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.
Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.
In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
Anything a person chases in life runs away.
When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.
Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.
Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
I'd like the world to know that I would do what I do for no money. If I could trade my comedy for food, I'd walk into a grocery store and give them 15 minutes for $100 worth of groceries. My passion is beyond the financial. I don't think people are aware of that about me. I'm not a flashy guy, and I want people to know that whatever they do is just as important as my craft.
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.
Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the breadth of it.