Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Sheryl Sandberg

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Thor Heyerdahl

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

Kristen Stewart

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.

Source Unknown

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Paulo Coelho

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Tony Parsons

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Haruki Murakami

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Michael Apted