"Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you."

“The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.”

“I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.”

“You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.”

“The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.”

“The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.”

“I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.”

“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

Source : Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”

“I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.”

Source : "Life as a House". www.imdb.com. 2001.