Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

So many other planets

David Self

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Aldous Huxley

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Bobby Hull

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

Jacques Pepin

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw

I urge you all today, especially today in these times of terrorism and chaos to love yourselves without reservation and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather; then by all means, use restraints.

Margaret Cho

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Doug Coupland

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Robert Engman

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

Barbara Kingsolver

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

Charles Dickens