In brain and insight she is not as highly organised as I am. But then she is aware of this, and so lavishes on me the maternal protection which, for some reason, is what I have always most wished from everyone.

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

Mark Twain

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Dick Cheney

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Samuel Butler

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

Geoffrey Rush

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man

Albert Camus

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Jennifer Lopez

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.

Hamlin Garland

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

John Raleigh Mott

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Kristen Stewart