A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.

Benjamin Franklin

When joy disappears, look for your mistake.

Leo Tolstoy

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hermann Hesse

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

David Mitchell

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

Theresa May

Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

I think marriage is ghastly.

Rupert Everett

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Jean Genet

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Martin Luther

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffer

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael Leboeuf

Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche