"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." — Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist, born 1870
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." — Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist, born 1870
"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong." — Stella Adler, American actress, born 1901
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." — Stella Adler, American actress, born 1901
"The theater is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time." — Stella Adler, American actress, born 1901
"No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done." — Ben Affleck, American actor, born 1972
"It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up." — Ben Affleck, American actor, born 1972
"The job of the grandmother is to span humanity’s greatest distance--the 14 inches from our heads to our hearts." — Grandma Aggie, Native American elder, born 1924
"Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel." — Kiran Ahluwalia, Indian singer, born 1965
"It's time to make love, douse the glim; the fireflies twinkle and dim; the stars lean together like birds of a feather, and the lion lies down with the lamb." — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born 1889
"The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep." — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born 1889
"Life is the thing--the song of life—the eager plow, the thirsty knife!" — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born 1889