Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

Don't judge a cat by its coat.

Magdalena VandenBerg

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Tom Hiddleston

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Kenny Wormald

Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.

Jackson Browne

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

David Boies

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas

In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

John White Geary

Life's rewards go to those who let their actions rise above their excuses.

Lee J. Colan, Orchestrating Atti

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.

James Jeans