I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Kevin Rudd

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Oscar Wilde

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Anthony Robbins

I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

John Buchanan

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Neil Gaiman

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Van Morrison

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.

John Gay

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

Thomas Jefferson