Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Thomas Carlyle

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Amy Winehouse

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Robert Half

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Terry Goodkind

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Jason Reitman

The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.

John L. Mason

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Tryon Edwards

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Joel Osteen

Come live with me, and be my love,And we will some new pleasures proveOf golden sands, and crystal brooks,With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne, "The Bait"

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Sherry Stringfield

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Deborah Norville

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Saint Teresa of Avila