We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Mark Webber

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Raymond Chandler

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Phyllis Schlafly

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Samuel Johnson

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

J. J. Abrams

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Ernest Hemingway

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

Sigmar Gabriel

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

Robert Carlyle

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Cynthia Rowley

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Benjamin Franklin

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop

George Bernard Shaw