"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

“What instruction the baby brings to the mother!”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

“The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.”

Source : Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.120, Hachette UK

“You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.”

Source : "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

“Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.”

“Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale”

“I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.”

“You're only as good as your last haircut.”