No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

If thou couldst trust, poor soul! In Him who rules the whole, Thou wouldst find peace and rest; Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.

Wallace D. Wattles

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

Nicolas Cage

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Melinda Clarke

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.

David Harold Fink

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Sallust

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.

Buddy Wakefield

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Michael Ondaatje