I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Bethenny Frankel

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Boris Johnson

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.

Walter Pater

Attack is the best form of defense.

Proverb

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

Francis Ford Coppola

Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals...

Leo Tolstoy

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

Paul Gauguin

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

James A. Baldwin