Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Italian Proverb

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Eric Butterworth

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Colin Powell

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Michael Jackson

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

will.i.am

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities

Samuel Johnson

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Chris Evans