It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Albert Einstein

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Henry Giles

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

John Major

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Alain de Botton

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

William Wordsworth

Yesterday I found out what doughnuts are for. You put them ondoughbolts. They hold dough airplanes together. For kids, theymake erector sets out of playdough.

Steven Wright

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Clara Barton

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

John Hawkes