Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am content with knowing if only I could know.
I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Many openly show discontentment with their looks but few with their intelligence. I however assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.