I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Samuel Butler

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Jil Sander

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ralph Ransom

And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Dale Dauten

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

Eva Ibbotson