I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Source Unknown

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

Tracy Chapman

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Daniel Radcliffe

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

Mario Monti

The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.

Stephen Richards

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

Hilary Swank

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Donny Osmond

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

The busy have no time for tears.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Florenz Ziegfeld

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Kenny Guinn