A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks

If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.

George Eliot

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

Lisa Guerrero

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Jodi Picoult

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Albert Camus

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

Oscar Wilde

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Albert Ellis

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Havelock Ellis

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us, To say anything about the rest of us.

Anon.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

Prince Philip