Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Kate Bush

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Taslima Nasrin

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fuller

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Goldie Hawn

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Jane Austen

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

Octavia Spencer

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Laura Carmichael

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Thomas Huxley

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman