Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Bob Beamon

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Megan Whalen Turner

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

Cat Cora

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Aga

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Matthew Macfadyen

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

Chaka Khan

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Leo Tolstoy

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Francesca Annis

Everything is hard when you have not started yet, but once you begin the hardness dissolves.

Nkosinathi Mehlomakulu