I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Dear heart, he murmured, do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a little longer. Remember, I must save the Dauphin at all costs; mine honor is bound with his safety. What happens to me after that matters but little, yet I wish to live for your dear sake.

Emmuska Orczy

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Barbet Schroeder

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Sean Durkin

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again. The taste of success seems merely to whet the appetite for more. When we lose, the compulsion to seek future success is overpowering; the need to get out on the course the following weekend is irresistible. We cannot quit when we are ahead, after we've won, and we certainly cannot quit when we're behind, after we've lost. We are addicted.

Stuart Walker

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Doug Coupland

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

Jane Fonda

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Ben Folds

Thinking is often regarded as an extension of the ego. Clever children in school base their egos on being clever and on being right all the time. They dislike group work because they cannot then show the rest of the class where the good idea originated. When the ego and thinking are treated as the same thing there is a reluctance to be wrong and a need to defend a point of view rather than to explore the situation. A person should be able to treat his thinking much as a tennis player treats his strokes: he should be able to walk off the court complaining that his backhand was not working very well on that occasion or that it required more practice. This new meta-system is very much in favour of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.ISBN 0851171257 Copyright

Edward De Bono, The Happiness Pu