For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.