Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Angelina Jolie

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else....

Winston Churchill

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

Sean Astin

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

Bill Loguidice

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Ethan Hawke