Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Elbert Hubbard

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

Fiona Apple

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

Nick Mason

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Mick Jagger

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Edward Rickenbacker

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Ivan Reitman

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

John Lahr

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Alton Brown