Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

Princess of Wales Diana

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

I love spicy food.

Cynthia Nixon

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Kurt Vonnegut

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Elizabeth Moon

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Edward Abbey

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

John Green

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

Malcolm Turnbull