Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

Damian Lewis

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Albert Einstein

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Mark Twain

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Paul Harris

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Herman Melville

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Rachel Simon

Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.

Steve Maraboli

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Roger Bannister