I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Julian Lennon

Reason over passion.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Mahatma Gandhi

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Oscar Wilde

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

Hilaire Belloc

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal

Oscar Wilde

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Nabokov

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell