One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Chinese Proverb

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

Ivan Lendl

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

Kurt Vonnegut

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Sophia Bush

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

Meister Eckhart

No one provokes me with impunity.

Mary Queen Of Scots

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Ernest Renan

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Katherine F. Gerould

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Yves Saint Laurent

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Sir William Temple

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia