Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

Peter O'Toole

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Walter Payton

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Brian Perkins

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

Paul McDonald

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Isaac Asimov

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H. W. Bush

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

Beth Ditto

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Jodi Picoult

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

J. J. Abrams