This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

The most intriguing part about felony is that, in the end, no matter what, it falls right back on you. You cannot elude it. You cannot dupe it.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

Personal branding is one thing that you just can't do well on your own. You are too close to it.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.