When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

each found her greatest safety in silence

Jane Austen

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

Chris Noth

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Daniel Morgan

My dad took me to my first movie.

Steven Spielberg

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Siegbert Tarrasch

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Alexis Korner

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

Colin Quinn

Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

LeVar Burton

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Tom Hooper