I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesnt. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? – Debra Winger
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but its in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. – Adriana Trigiani
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot
All successful men have agreed in one thing — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
