We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Emmy Rossum

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Douglas Adams

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Demi Moore

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Mason Cooley

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Mickey Rourke

Love means never having to be apart

James Patterson

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!

Gillian Anderson

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Olivia Thirlby