I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

Alastair Campbell

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Kenneth Clarke

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Wa

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christopher Darden

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Sitting Bull

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Harry Dean Stanton

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Mikhail Bakunin

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Ehrlich

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

Michael Ealy

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues, because they are likely to be extremely uncomfortable without them. (Book V.).

George Eliot

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using adotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright