To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Dame Sybil Hathaway

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Harry Mathews

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.

Joseph E. Rogers

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith, In the Wor

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac

There is more truth about Human Nature in a good Sci-Fi or Epic Fantasy Novel than in any Non-Fiction. When you're speaking for real, you hide what you don't want others to see. When you're telling a story, you don't hold back.

I Curmudgeon Hugh

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Mitch Albom

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Zooey Deschanel

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Philip Yancey

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Nathaniel Branden

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie