Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

Stirling Moss

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

William Blake

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Source Unknown

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

Alexander Pushkin

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Louis Farrakhan

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Edward James Olmos

The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

Cheryl James

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes.

Daniel R. Scroggin

These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

Herodotus, Histories