In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Karl Kraus

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Brad Sherman

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Dee Dee Myers

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Salvador Dali

Religion does not mean to surrender to dogmas and religious scriptures or conformity to rituals. But my religion constitutes an abiding faith in the perfect values of truth and the ceaseless attempt to realise them in the inner most part of our nature.

Hans Ji Maharaj

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

George Orwell

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

Georg Simmel

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot