"I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect." — Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, born 1918
"The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage." — Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, born 1918
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." — Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-English actress, born 1918
"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