We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I Ching

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

Michel de Montaigne

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Adams

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Alicia Machado

The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

Source Unknown

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Robert Musil

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James G. Frazer

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

Walter Gilbert

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

John Podhoretz

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson