A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

Elizabeth Hurley

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Lord Alfred Douglas, Collected P

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

Laura Linney

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Cyril Connolly

The good and wise lead quite lives

Euripides

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

John Sculley

...that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Paulo Coelho

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Mason Cooley

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Adolf Loos

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

Andrew Sullivan

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Gisele Bundchen