But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

James Dyson

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

Nick Clegg

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one

Friedrich Nietzsche

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

.. almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Confucius

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol Kane

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal, "quoted in Sunday Ti

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

Edward W. Howe

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

J.K. Rowling