Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward George BulwerLytton

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

Ed Westwick

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Samuel Johnson

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson

Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

Terry Pratchett

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Ilka Chase

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

Steve Kanaly

He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all.

Albert Camus

Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, is mainly in need of freedom.

Albert Einstein

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Alanis Morissette

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

Pope Benedict XVI