Harold Pinter - My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Jesse Jackson - When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Aimee Bender - I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Leigh Steinberg - It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Lewis Capaldi - Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

David Eddings - I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

James O'Shaughnessy - Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

Rosamund Pike - I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach

Harold MacMillan - A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Malcolm X - If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Joyce Meyer - We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Julie Payette - I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.

Woodrow Wilson - Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Robert Staughton Lynd - Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.