The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream? mumbled the Senior Wrangler. It is contrary to all sense.

Terry Pratchett

Attitude is everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann von Goethe

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

Paul Nurse

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

B. C. Forbes

You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

Ovid

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Joe E. Lewis

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Sigmund Freud, New Lectures in P