The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I am a little concerned that some of the measures that are proposed may simply increase the number of consultants who are telling businesses what they already know.

Alasdair Morgan, speaking to The

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Anne Stevenson

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Leo Tolstoy

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Ben Johnson

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Sowell

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn