"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

“You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.”

“There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'”

“I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.”

Source : "A Study in Power: Christine Lagarde" by Camilla Webster, www.forbes.com. August 24, 2011.

“How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.”

“The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.”

Source : "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, as translated by Schubert M. Ogden, p.10, 1984.

“I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.”

“the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.277, Cambridge University Press