The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

Aldous Huxley

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

Terry Pratchett

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

James Cash Penney

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Terry Eagleton

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

Ibrahim Rugova

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

Cat Deeley

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Thomas Aquinas