Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Jean de la Bruyere

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

Sebastian Coe

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

Roger Ebert

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

Kenneth Hare

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Mark Twain

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lewis H. Lapham

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

Charles Olson

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sir Philip Sidney