You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.

Surely thy body is thy mind, For in thy face is nought to find, Only thy soft unchristened smile, That shadows neither love nor guile.

Robert Bridges

Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.

Miguel de Unamuno

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

George Clooney

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Ennis

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

Kevin O'Leary

You can't live your life through your children.

Carl Lewis

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Will Harvey

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

Elton John

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Terry Pratchett