In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

G. Randolf

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Edward Gibbon

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Remy de Gourmont

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Abraham Maslow

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Russell Baker

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

Chris Hankin

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl Buck

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All seems infected that the infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crit

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Jean Rostand

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Iain Duncan Smith