I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nikki Giovanni

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

Vi Putnam

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

Ezra Miller

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Kristin Scott Thomas

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

Matt Hardy

People would rather be wrong than be different.

Henry Jacobsen