It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Theresa

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Kanye West

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Imelda Staunton

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Charlotte Bunch

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

George Bernard Shaw

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

For me, London is and always will be home.

Clive Owen

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

Mark Messier

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

T. S. Eliot