I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

Kiri Te Kanawa

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Anna Paquin

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all.

Deborah Day

Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

Source Unknown

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

Douglas Coupland

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

Mark Twain

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Mario Puzo

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Thomas Browne

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Johann von Goethe