Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

Taylor Caldwell, Ask Them Yourse

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.

George Eliot

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anna Lindh

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Cassandra Clare

Be happy or die.

Rob Cohen

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Wayne Dyer

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

George Ripley

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Damian Lewis

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

Bryan Cranston