Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

Fear always springs from ignorance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lady doth protest too much, me thinks

William Shakespeare

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

Diane Kruger

Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue...http://www.literaturepage.com/read/tom-jones-914.html

Henry Fielding, The History of T

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Margaret Sanger

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

Ouida

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.

Steve Maraboli

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

Called a blind date to set up a meeting at a restaurant. Isaid, I'll be the one in the leather jacket. She said, I'llbe the one drinking sake. Turned out it was one of thosebikersushi places. We never met.

Steven Wright

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Estelle Morris