Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving, Tales of a Tr

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Simon Raven

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Buckminster Fuller

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Chris Rock

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Rest is the grace we extend to ourselves. It is the “yes” of a body surrendering to a holy command.

Saundra Dalton-Smith

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Laurence J. Peter

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Yann Martel

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Stephen Fry

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

Sam Raimi

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget