It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Walter Scott

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Michel Gondry

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

Jason Schwartzman

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Jean Paul Richter

It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.

Haruki Murakami

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

Charles Foster Bass

hearts are breakable. and i think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

Cassandra Clare

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks