You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

Leona Lewis

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Lena Horne

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Tim Berners Lee

So live, that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan, which movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy graveLike one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

William Cullen Bryant, Thanatops

By the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.

James Beattie

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Norman Mailer

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

J.K. Rowling

He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.

Kurt Vonnegut