I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Henri Frederic Amiel

Only one who loves can remember so well.

Anton Chekhov

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

Kate Mara

Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 29:18; 11:14

Bible

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only

Thomas Carlyle

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Demian Bichir

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Jane Austen

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Henry David Thoreau

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Haruki Murakami