Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

What liberated our souls, we live to serve.

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter - your voters weren't locked in the room with you, Republican establishment. You were locked in the room with them.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

I'm against ignorance.

Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.