Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Austin O'Malley

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Swami Sivananda

There is not grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Rush Limbaugh

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Robert Carlyle

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Sampson