Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language

Henry James

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Eric Alterman

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Michelle Malkin

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Jane Campion

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Homer

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Willa Cather

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

William Bartram

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

Jennifer Hudson