Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Willard Gaylin

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Publilius Syrus

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Ray Stevenson

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Stephen King

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Lucius C. Falkland

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

David Herbert Lawrence

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

Angela Merkel