I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan Wilson Watts

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Julie Bishop

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

Success breeds success.

Mia Hamm

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

Socrates

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Kenneth More

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Edward Masefield

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

Paolo Nutini

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Vaclav Havel