Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

Sean Hayes

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

P. G. Wodehouse

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

Bryce Dallas Howard

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

John O'Donohue

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Emma Watson

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful reminiscences that there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result. In my case, the experience of a whirring, whizzing horror just missing my ear was indeed briefly exciting, but on reflection made me want above all to get to the airport. Catching the plane out with a whole skin is the best part .) Or suppose I had been hit by that mortar that burst with an awful shriek so near to me, and turned into a Catherine wheel of body-parts and (even worse) body-ingredients? Once again, I was moved above all not by the thought that my death would 'count,' but that it would not count in the least.

Christopher Hitchens

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Susan Powter

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer