After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Megan Whalen Turner

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Benjamin Netanyahu

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Banksy

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Paulo Coelho

With publicity comes humiliation.

Tama Janowitz

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship

Wendell Phillips

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Margaret Sanger

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus Christ

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Henry David Thoreau

In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen.

Robert Benchley

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Friedrich von Schiller