I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Mark Van Doren

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Sir Winston Churchill

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jane Austen

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Medgar Evers

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.

Gerard Butler

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

Sarah Dessen

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

Bob Verdi

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Bertrand Russell

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Gayle Forman