The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Stephen King

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Clive James

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Emily Mortimer

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Gregory David Roberts

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Robert Duvall

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

Proverb

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Frederick Reines

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

Gavin MacLeod

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Danny Boyle

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

Gwen Stefani

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson