It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare, As You Like

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Theodore Roosevelt

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

Lillian Russell

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

Daniel J. Boorstin

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Chinua Achebe

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Paul Gauguin

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

Thomas Carlyle

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Madonna Ciccone

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Marcus Tullius Cicero