I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won't be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold.

Mata Amritanandamayi

When a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbors to wish him joy.

George Eliot

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

Rodney Stark

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Dickens

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Yiddish Proverb

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

Kim Kardashian

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Tori Amos

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Jeffrey Archer

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

John Ruskin

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

Neil Gaiman