It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don

But if it be a sin to covet honour,I am the most offending soul alive.

William Shakespeare

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Tom Kite

It is important not to trust people too much.

V. S. Naipaul

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Walter Benjamin

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Helen Hayes

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Albert Camus

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Wynton Marsalis

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

Paul Chatfield

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

Samantha Stosur

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Jamie Redknapp

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

Julie Powell