Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

James Thomson

Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts: Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.

Richard Garnett

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,...then they fall down the curtains.

Charles Baudelaire

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

Rufus Sewell

Patience is the secret to good food.

Gail Simmons

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

Murray Gell-Mann

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

David Duchovny

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Madonna Ciccone

I have the strength to endure it all.

Moshe Dayan