Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Theresa Breslin

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Pearl Bailey

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Jan Carlzon

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Mahatma Gandhi

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Sam Mendes

The present is a point just passed.

David Russell

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

Jacob Bronowski

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Jeanette Winterson

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong