The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.