We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Russell Lynes

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Ernst Mach

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

William Shakespeare

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

G. K. Chesterton

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

Proverb

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

David Walliams

A rotten case abides no handling

William Shakespeare

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

Brad Thor

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Salma Hayek