People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Alexander McCall Smith

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

Kylie Minogue

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Stevie Nicks

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

Joel Robuchon

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.

Henry Spencer

People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.

George Eliot

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Catherine the Great

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Vanessa Hudgens