When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Cole Porter

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Wendy Cope

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Thomas Carlyle

They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Hugh Jackman

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.

George Bernard Shaw

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Simon Hoggart

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)