'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

Steve Maraboli

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Johann von Goethe

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Engl

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

Michelle Trachtenberg

There are two types of men who never amount to anything. One is the fellow who never does anything except that which he is told to do. The other is the fellow who cannot do even that which he is told to do.

Andrew Carnegie

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Ray Bradbury

As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.

Tim Flannery

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

David Gemmell

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

Proverb