Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

Iain Duncan Smith

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Kahlil Gibran

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Alanis Morissette

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

Stephen Hawking

I never look back, I look forward.

Steffi Graf

Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Francesca Annis

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

Lee Radziwill

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Scotty McCreery

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Bob Dylan

I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.

Barry Munro

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

George Santayana