To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

George Eliot

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Stephen King

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Louis C. K.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

David Walliams

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Ronald Reagan

Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon