The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Edward W. Howe

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

Marquis de Sade

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Keith Miller

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Sam Mendes

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men

William Shakespeare

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Francesca Annis