It is very wearing to be good

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Paulo Coelho

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

David Herbert Lawrence

I saw a rainbow earlier today Lately those rainbows be comin' round like everyday Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me God is watchin' and the Devil finally let me be Here in this moment to myself

Macy Gray

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Holbrook Jackson

There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.

Heath Ledger

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Samuel Johnson

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

Mark Twain

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Christian Bale