Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die.

Paulo Coelho

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Thandie Newton

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Lukas Foss

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Simon Cowell

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Bo Derek

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

Elisabeth Shue

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Steve Jobs

I am but an architectural composer.

Alexander Jackson Davis

Touch passion when it comes your way...It

J. Michael Straczynski

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw