While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

Perry Como

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

J. R. Martinez

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies,

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

Eric Bana

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Eliza Haywood

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

Martina Hingis

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

Julie Burchill

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Thornton T. Munger