My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

To saucy doubts and fears.

William Shakespeare

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Anthony Trollope

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Christian Bale

Love is trembling happiness.

Khalil Gibran

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Ambrose Bierce

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Roland Barthes

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Wangari Maathai

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust