You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

Helen Simonson

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

Sanjay Dutt

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Denis Waitley

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

Maria Sharapova

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Oscar Wilde

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Mortimer Adler

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Paul Graham