The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham

Going after what I believe in.

Paulo Coelho

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

Emerson Fittipaldi

...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...

John Geddes

Still let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Abraham Lincoln

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Bob Dylan

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Neil Gaiman

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

Francesca Annis

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje