Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

Christopher Hitchens

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

Those who desire to certify miracles may wish to say that such recoveries have no natural explanation. But this does not at all mean that there is therefore a supernatural one.

Christopher Hitchens

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Andy Serkis

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

Kami Garcia

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.

Oscar Wilde

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Dave Matthews

How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.

Hermann Hesse

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre