"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." — Irving Berlin, American composer, born 1888
"When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep." — Irving Berlin, American composer, born 1888
"Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love." — Hector Berlioz, French composer, born 1803
"There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected." — Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, born 1955
"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor." — Sarah Bernhardt, French early film actress, born 1844
"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third." — Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, born 1844
"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer." — Sarah Bernhardt, French early film actress, born 1844
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." — Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, born 1844
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." — Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, born 1918
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer." — Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, born 1918