Our psychology is... a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

Felicity Jones

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Edward W. Howe

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Ogden Stiers

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

Fantasia Barrino

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

John Steinbeck

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

Ellie Goulding

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real.

Thomas Merton

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Philip Roth

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Ron Paul