Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

Education is the fertilizer for the mind, the seeds for success, and the eye opener for life.

I may not know who you are, where you are, or where you will be after I have gone, but I still love you. I came to this world to serve all of you.

She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the past…edit out the monsters hell-bent on taking the lives of everyone she loved.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.