We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Marcus V. Pollio

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Tom Clancy

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...

Victor Hugo

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Mortimer Collins

Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

T.H. White

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Sandra Day O'Connor

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Stephen Baker

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale

Every solution breeds new problems.

Arthur Bloch