The greater person is one of courtesy.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Laura Linney

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

David Miliband

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Aristotle

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Brian Tracy

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Orwell

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Mindy Kaling

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Citium Zeno

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

Ayumi Hamasaki