When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Anne Stevenson

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

Sebastian Vettel

I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

Jodi Picoult

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

Lance Bass

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Cesare Pavese

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Sarah Dessen

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Robert Orben

There is no unique picture of reality.

Stephen Hawking

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

Proverb

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward Thorndike