Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but others will.

Anon.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

Paulo Coelho

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Christian Bale

Everybody's damaged by something.

Emma Donoghue

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

Seth Green

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

Mitt Romney

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

Irvin D. Yalom

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Jojo Moyes

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

Gary Oldman