People will then often say, But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

Nicole Kidman

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing...maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

J.K. Rowling

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Ambroise Valery, La Jeune P

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self.

Katha Upanishad

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jessica Lange

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World a

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

Veronica Roth

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg