Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Elizabeth Heller

In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

Martin Buber

Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.

Christopher Hitchens

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Dan Gable

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Tom Hiddleston

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

Everybody has the idea of Santa in their head and in their heart.

Mick Foley

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Kay Redfield Jamison

We are all alike, on the inside.

Mark Twain

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

George Saunders