One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Emile Zola

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

Virginia Woolf

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Alexander Alekhine

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Nigel Mansell

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

Katie Price

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

Naomi Wolf

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

William Shakespeare

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Mary McCarthy

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

Tom Shadyac