"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

“Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.”

“All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.”

“In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

“It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.”

“I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.”

“The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.”

“For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.”

“I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old.”

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