The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Howard Gardner

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?Clara: Because I love you.

Cynthia Hand

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Cassandra Clare

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

Ben Barnes

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Chita Rivera

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.

Steve Maraboli

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

Sigmar Gabriel

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Thom Mayne

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Oscar Wilde