Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Thomas Browne

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Connie Britton

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you.

Cassandra Clare

I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace.

Lionel Suggs

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

This abdiction of life demanded of the artist is to be achieved only relatively. Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

Anais Nin

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston

Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friend

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Ty Cobb

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Ernest Hemingway

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Bill Nighy