I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Alan Watts

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

Love that is not madness is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Tom Hardy

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Eminem

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

Voltaire

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald