For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood, That scarlet tree within, which has the power To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Robert Louis Stevenson

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Source Unknown

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Ann Curry

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Albert Einstein

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Leo Tolstoy

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

Daniel Craig

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known; as a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or even the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; and which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened, for no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall them.

Charles Dickens

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.

Brian Cox

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Germaine De Stael

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

Stephen King

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

John Mahoney