I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was flogging a dead horse.

John Morley

By day the appalling loose beauty of prowling floes: lions' heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks, and a thing like a blown rose.

Andrew Motion

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

Kate Millet

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

Sorin Cerin

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

Donald G. Mitchell

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Joseph Conrad

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Wayne Dyer

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles