I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Thomas Merton

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Blaise Pascal

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

James Ellroy

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Douglas MacArthur

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

Curtis W. Fentress

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

David Feherty

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Richard Dean Anderson

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

William Shakespeare

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

Renee Fleming

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

Kathy Mattea

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

Leona Lewis