My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Thomas Carlyle

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Ani DiFranco

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Neil Gaiman

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

John W. Foster

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Publilius Syrus

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

Tom Hiddleston

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

Abdul Kalam

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Larry Hagman

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

Timothy Murphy

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

Robert Coover