Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule. - Minnie Driver

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

You can't test courage cautiously. - Annie Dillard

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. - Ernest Hemingway

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. - Chester Irving Barnard

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. - Rudy Giuliani

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. - John F. Kennedy

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. - Walt Disney

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. - Mike Myers

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. - Charles Darwin

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. - Henry Rollins

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. - Vincent McNabb

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy. - Gabrielle Union

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck. - Jim Parsons

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. - Alexander Payne

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all. - Harry Seidler

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

I find forgiveness to be really healthy. - Ben Affleck

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do. - Tom Colicchio

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming. - Della Reese

- #zap this if you like to see more. #Quote