My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.

Kirsty Coventry

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Stephen Jay Gould

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Saint Augustine

Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Thomas Hardy

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

Samuel Johnson

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Proverb

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

James D'arcy

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Doug Coupland

I will give you the best I have.

George C. Marshall