The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Tom Petty

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Eric Ripert

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Chris Morris

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

Diana Ross

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Stephen Hawking

When will reality come closer to the truth?

Loesje

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

Auberon Herbert

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Neil Gaiman

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

John Dryden