Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Thomas Carlyle

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

Charlize Theron

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

John Key

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Felix Baumgartner

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

George Eliot

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

D. Byron Patterson

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Alexander Pope

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Mary Webb

She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Cardinal J. Newman

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Samuel Johnson