Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Jodi Picoult

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

Arabella Weir

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Alice Hamilton

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Mark Twain

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Queen Elizabeth II

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Lafcadio Hearn

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Norman Ralph Augustine

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes