We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

George Foreman

Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. Colon, being by nature more optimistic and by intellect a good deal slower, was still at the Clues are Important stage.

Terry Pratchett

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Hugh Jackman

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Samuel G. Goodrich

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Charles Montesquieu

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

William M. Bulger

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Jude Law

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Charles Bukowski

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

E.M. Forster

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Tom Allen

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Kathy Griffin

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Orison Swett Marden