What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

Let the path be open to talent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Joan Collins

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Alberto Juantorena

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

Wendell Berry

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

Susie Orbach