Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

Prince Andrew

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Pat Boone

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

Simone Weil

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

Kevin Whately

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Margot Kidder

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Atticus Shaffer

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Graham Coxon

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe