It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

I find it funny when women share makeup-free selfies on Twitter or Instagram, and it's such a huge deal.

I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

We all need people who will give us feedback. Thats how we improve.

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

Cute is when a persons personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.

It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

I'm still very much Kate.

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

Salem is such a cool little town that's very touristy. It's fun to walk around all the shops and get the feeling there.

When you want to win a game you have to teach. When you lose a game you have to learn.

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as I possibly can; I'll look surreal.

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?

Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.