You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Isak Dinesen

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know

Bertrand Russell

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Diane Wakoski

I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

Khloe Kardashian

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

William Shakespeare

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

Mechthild of Magdenburg

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Rosie Perez

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

In brain and insight she is not as highly organised as I am. But then she is aware of this, and so lavishes on me the maternal protection which, for some reason, is what I have always most wished from everyone.

Virginia Woolf

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Golding

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce