How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

Bart Starr

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

Victor Hugo

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.

Georg Buchner

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Curtis Stone

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Charles Baudelaire

So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Kurt Vonnegut

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Shirley Hufstedler