Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Paul Brunton

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

David Sanborn

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Maynard Keynes

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

.. solo essere liberi di andarsene ogni giorno può dimostrarci la sincerit? di un rapporto.

Vasco Rossi

How is the Empire?

King George V

The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.

Garrison Keillor

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo