"I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after."

“It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.”

Source : "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.

“Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.”

Source : Elsa Lanchester (1938). “Charles Laughton and I”, Harcourt, Brace and company

“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

“A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.”

“Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.”

“Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it.”

“I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.”