...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Jane Austen

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

James Bovard

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Charles H. Parkhurst

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

Alan Shearer

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

David Brainerd

I don't direct movies for a living.

Tommy Lee Jones

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

E. M. Forster

We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw something good from out of this. We cannot think of the children consumed by the fires of Auschwitz and Hiroshima and manufacture some easy gratitude. Gratitude does not take away the horrors of violence.

Ellen Vaughn, Radical Gratitude

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

Marina Warner

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe