It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Ben Vereen

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

Buddha

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Freeman Dyson

I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes...

Samuel Butler, The NoteBooks of

This twofold nature of man is so evident that some have thought that we had two souls. A single subject seemed to them incapable of such sudden variations from unmeasured presumption to a dreadful dejection of heart.

Blaise Pascal

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

Melanie Brown

To be human is to be beautifully flawed.

Eric Wilson

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 273 Ch

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Lou Holtz

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein