The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Tom Hiddleston

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Scottish Proverb

The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end.

James Dye

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Chuck Palahniuk

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

The empowered mind allows problems to seed personal growth.

Steve Maraboli

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don

Karl Kraus, Trans. by Harry Zohn

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Ferdinand Mount

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Anatole France

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

George Orwell

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Joss Stone