The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Ellen Terry

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

William Shakespeare

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step...so watch your step

Jeffrey R. Holland

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Carl Lewis

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Max Eastman

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

Ryan Giggs

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

William Wordsworth

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

Mike Huckabee

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Francis Bacon

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather