I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Peter Tork

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Antonio Banderas

Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes

Mark Twain

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

Melina Marchetta

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)

Charles Dickens

Many take the name of God after receiving blows in life. But he who can offer his mind like a flower at the feet of the Lord right up from childhood is indeed blessed.

Sarada Devi

Choose people who lift you up.

Michelle Obama

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

Bhumibol Adulyadej