We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

Debra Winger

Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Aldous Huxley

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Hermann Hesse

We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Michael Talbot

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

Rupert Grint

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

Ike Turner

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

A. J. Liebling