The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Beth Ditto

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live

Leo Tolstoy

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Don Herold

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

Danny Boyle

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

George E. P. Box

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

John Leguizamo

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Zoe Kazan

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara de Angelis

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

A. C. Benson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Samuel Johnson