Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Russell Crowe

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

Lana Del Rey

When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.

David Walliams

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

Isabel Allende

I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.

Jennifer Paynter

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson, From a College Win

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

George Harrison

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone