I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Nicolas Chamfort

I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

Kat Dennings

Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Samuel Butler

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.

Chantal Sutherland

You're not Forsaken. You're Chosen for Purpose.

Vanessa Richardson

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

C.S. Lewis

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

Paul Harris

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

James Freeman Clarke