It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Bill Rancic

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.

Proverb

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer. Because it's the only apprenticeship we have. It's the only way of learning how to write a story.

John Green

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

True love is born from understanding.

The Buddha

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

Jerry Hall

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

Edward Gardner

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Lorrie Moore

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Samuel Johnson