She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

Her suspense was terrible.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

Everyone will hurt you if you let them in.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.