When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education

Thomas Jefferson

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Rodney Dangerfield

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Dame Ethel Smyth

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

Jocelyn Murray

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

I know myself, but that is all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Quincy Jones

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

Ethan Hawke

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell