"I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough."

“Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

“Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!”

“Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create.”

“I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.”

“When someone stands you up for a meeting, sure, you have the right to be disappointed, and perhaps even angry. But you can't take it personally - they probably do it to everyone.”

“Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.”

Source : "The school of hard Knox" by J Rentilly, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

“Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.”

Source : Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.59, David C Cook

“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.”