My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Bruce Barton

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.

Luther Burbank

As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Maurice Wilkes

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Julie Burchill

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

Karen Armstrong

Birth was the death of him.

Samuel Beckett

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

Adam Savage

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

Jenson Button

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

Danny Boyle

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

John Green

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Chris Rock