Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Let us be of cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

When I go away from you the world beats dead like a slackened drum.

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum....

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time.

In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

I'm from Malibu, California. Once I tell people, they're like, 'Oh, of course you're from Malibu; that makes sense.' I guess I am your typical just-graduated-high-school-in-Malibu type of girl. Our school was just across from Zuma beach, and we all wore Lululemons and bathing suit tops to go to the grocery store - no makeup, no shoes.

I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.

Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The best place to live is where you are right now.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares!

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.