No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Frederick Soddy

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

Jocelyn Murray

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Barry Deutsch

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

Hayden Christensen

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .

Stephen King

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

Emmet Fox

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Dobie Gillis

The gains in life come slowly and the losses come on suddenly. You work for years to get your life the way you want it and buy the big house and the time share on Antigua and one afternoon you

Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Demo

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Mark Twain

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Dougray Scott