She had faith in words, believing in their ability to carry inexpressible messages, trusting that what cannot be said can somehow be borne aloft by what can be said. She was right.

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

Seve Ballesteros

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Sara Teasdale

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Eileen Aitkins

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Martin McGuinness

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

Jonathan Sacks

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Ron Perlman

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

John D. Rockefeller

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Earl of Arran

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens