I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

John Updike, In Hugging the Shor

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

Azar Nafisi

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

Lillie Langtry

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost -- the most legitimate -- passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Marquis de Sade

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Kenneth Branagh

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D Eisenhower