You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

Kevin Rudd

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

Rita Rudner

If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the id

Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Lauren Conrad

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Simon Winchester

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Thornton Wilder

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

David Lee Roth

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

Cat Cora

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Nick Park