Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Jack Nicklaus

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Donald Cargill

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.

Anon.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Andre Gide, Journal

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Samuel Johnson

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Sting

You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire? To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?

Aaron Weiss

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

Aberjhani

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bertrand Russell