Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Voltaire

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred (bk.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Marcus Aurelius

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Warren Christopher

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Benjamin Banneker

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Timothy Pina

Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

J. M. Coetzee

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Desmond Tutu

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf