Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Alice Hoffman

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

W. C. Fields

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

Terry Pratchett

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Martin C. Smith

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Helen Gurley Brown

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Thomas a Kempis

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Bruce Jenner