Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Major Owens

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Stephen Fry

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversations; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Sir John Robert Seeley

When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.

Paulo Coelho

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Alvin Lee

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

Stephen Harper

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Oscar Wilde

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly