"Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong."

“I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.”

Source : "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

“Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.”

“Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.”

“When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.”

“I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.”

“Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1632, Delphi Classics

“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”

“Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.”