Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Chinese Proverb

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Cassandra Clare

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

Eva Green

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

Plato

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.

Piers Paul Read

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Di Cavour

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

Kurt Vonnegut

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Helena Christensen

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti