If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

William Hazlitt

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

Leslie Fiedler

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Terry Pratchett

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Robert Chambers

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Tim Allen

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Dolley Madison