If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Abel Stevens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay

Charles Dickens

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

Jack Osbourne

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

Jim Capaldi

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Aeschylus

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

Man knows more than he understands.

Alfred Adler

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th