Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell

Flattery is like cologne; water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.

Earl Riney

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jonathan Sacks

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Steven Moffat

What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Italo Calvino

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Brene Brown

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis