It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

Michael Morpurgo

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

Andy Serkis

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

Warwick Davis

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Steve Maraboli

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Jude Law

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

Mia Hamm

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Geraldine Ferraro

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Charles Keating