Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

What is the meaning of it Watson?What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear?It must tend to some end or else our universe is ruled by chance,which is unthinkable.But what end?There is this long standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Edgar R. Fiedler

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

Little Richard

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Graham Coxon

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Bo Bennett

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell