Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

Color is the fruit of life.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.