Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Charles Horton Cooley

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

Ryan Reynolds

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Meat Loaf

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

Ludwig Feuerbach

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

George Orwell

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Marilyn Monroe

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Tim Roth

Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.

Sara Quin

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Virginia Woolf