Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

William Shakespeare

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.

Erica Jong

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

C.S. Lewis

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Mark Twain

Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.

Kareena Kapoor

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Werner Herzog

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

Geoffrey Rush

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'

Jonathan Edwards

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

Eric Liu