My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

Life is but thought.

Sara Teasdale

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

Vladimir Kramnik

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell

A man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Gertrude Stein

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Pope John Paul II

For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...

C.S. Lewis

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

Rudolph Arnheim, Entropy and Art

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

W. C. Fields

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

Ginnifer Goodwin

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Harry Connick, Jr.