A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. And what you're doing now isn't traveling, it's just changing countries, which is completely different

Paulo Coelho

No man fails who does his best...

Orison Swett Marden

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Cardinal De Richelieu

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Cynthia Nixon

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Joseph Joubert

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

William Blake

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Bill Dixon

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Juan Ramon Jiminez

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Jason Bateman

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts.

Alexander Trocchi