Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain,

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

Dannii Minogue

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Warren Mitchell

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

Tony Greig

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller

I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.

Jessica Lynch

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I

Harold Bloom

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham