Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

William Shakespeare

Hitler said that categories were the greatest tool a leader can use to control people and set them against each other. We should stop categorizing each other for all of the misconceptions that it causes.

James Dye

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

Kate Atkinson

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

John O'Donohue

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Gloria Steinem

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Joyce Brothers

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Roger Stone