Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Kristen Stewart

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Andre Maurois

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nicolas Cage

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

Twenty children can never play together for twenty years

Michael Adelowo

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it

Victor Hugo

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

Nikki Haley

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

David Schwimmer

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

William Shakespeare

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Amy Tan