There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

John Ruskin

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

Katherine Jenkins

Ben Says: Make up your mind

Timothy Pina

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

Mary Harris Jones

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

Rashida Jones

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

John Erskine, The Complete Life

I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley