I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

Alexander McCall Smith

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Rudy Giuliani

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

Christy Turlington

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

John Maynard Keynes

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Chris Evans

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Mark Twain

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

Bill McCartney