Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Louise Woodward

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier

Thinking is another attribute of the soul; and here I discover what properly belongs to myself. This alone is inseparable from me. I am -- I exist: this is certain; but how often? As often as I think; for perhaps it would even happen, if I should wholly cease to think, that I should at the same time altogether cease to be. I now admit nothing that is not necessarily true: I am therefore, precisely speaking, only a thinking thing, that is, a mind, understanding, or reason, -- terms whose signification was before unknown to me. I am, however, a real thing, and really existent; but what thing? The answer was, a thinking thing. The question now arises, am I aught besides? I will stimulate my imagination with a view to discover whether I am not still something more than a thinking being. Now it is plain I am not the assemblage of members called the human body; I am not a thin and penetrating air diffused through all these members, or wind, or flame, or vapour, or breath, or any of all the things I can imagine; for I supposed that all these were not, and, without changing the supposition, I find that I still feel assured of my existence.

Rene Descartes, The Nature of th

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Brad Meltzer

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Jodi Picoult

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Terry Pratchett

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

Aubrey Plaza

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Percy Wynham Lewis

There is very little difference between men and women in space.

Helen Sharman

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

Sebastian Vettel

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Jeremy Thorpe