It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

Working with Ava [ DuVernay] and Oprah [Winfrey], they're just so intimate. I feel like we're really family at this point.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!