Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

Elizabeth Gilbert

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Herman Melville

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

John Green

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Robert H. Schuller

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Ang Lee

When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.

Anna Kendrick

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Karl Kraus

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi