Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

Stella Oladiran

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Simone Weil

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Andrew Bird

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

Ian Mcewan

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick W. Faber, Notes on Doc

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Joseph Conrad

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

Harvey Fierstein

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sir Philip Sidney

The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression. The need for truth requires that intellectual culture should be universally accessible, and that it should be able to be acquired in an environment neither physically remote nor psychologically alien.

Simone Weil

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

David Hockney