In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare

The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.

Wallace Stevens

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.

Ser Jaime Lannister, the Kingsla

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Harold Pinter

When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!

Stephen Richards

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Richard Hell

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Serena Williams