It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Benjamin Franklin

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell, Nobel Lecture,

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Norman Cousins

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

L. Ron Hubbard

People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.

Jim Broadbent

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jos

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Hugh Jackman

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emile M. Cioran

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Pete Townshend

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne