"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."

“To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.103, Vintage

“Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.4, Rodale

“My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.”

“Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.”

“I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.”

“The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.”

“I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business ...and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.”

Source : "Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talk THE OTHER WOMAN, Their Chemistry on Set, the Rating, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 22, 2014.

“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”