One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Nunca habría sido capaz de decírselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo decía a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de eso. También era consciente de lo bien que me sentía al ser capaz de decirle a alguien lo que pensaba de veras. Aunque solo fuera sobre música.

Sarah Dessen

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Justin Halpern

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

C.S. Lewis

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Lee Child

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

Source Unknown

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Elizabeth I

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Craig Ferguson

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

Jean Paul

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Nigel Farage