Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Ellie Goulding

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Giada De Laurentiis

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

Rick Schroder

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Plato

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

All paid employments... absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Tennyson

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

William Stanley Jevons

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Margaret Weis, Soulforge

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

Jeb Bush

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Bill Hicks