I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum, Jr.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

George Eliot

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Fay Weldon

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Lord Chesterfield

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

Mitch Albom

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Stephen Collins

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Henry David Thoreau

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

B. C. Forbes

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen