I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Camryn Manheim

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Desiderius Erasmus

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Kristin Scott Thomas

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Buzz Aldrin

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Robert E. Lee

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Hugh Hefner

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

Lewis H. Lapham

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Ellie Goulding

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

J.K. Rowling

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Peabo Bryson