Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.

Luke Scott

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

American Indian Proverb

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

Elena Anaya

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, ? ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant ? celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute ? son tour.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Edward Gibbon

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Maurice Sendak

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Lou Gerstner

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

Andrew Motion

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Lynn Redgrave

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill