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

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

Steve Jobs

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Francis Bacon

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

William Godwin

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Friendship is a prodigal, but love is a miser.

Proverb

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Eddie Marsan

The smile upon my lips, ?It will surely never die ?As I'm waiting here for you ?until you're by my side.

Freida Martinez

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn

Alain de Botton, The Inevitable

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only

Ludwig Wittgenstein