It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said she was a quiet-tempered lady, and the housekeeper had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who'd have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemed exactly like a dream, they had quite worn the subject out, and began to think their mourning was wearing rusty too.

Charles Dickens

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality

George Eliot

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

William Shakespeare

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.

Richard Feynman

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

Charles Dickens

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Leon Trotsky

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper.

Aleister Crowley, The Confession

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

Jerry Hall

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Princess of Wales Diana