The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Olivier Martinez

. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickle

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Plato

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Les Brown

That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

Orson Scott Card

Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Charles M. Schwab

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Brittany Murphy

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

Lena Dunham

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

Lauren Hammond