The glories of our blood and state
 Are shadows, not substantial things;
 There is no armour against fate;
 Death lays his icy hands on kings.

Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.

François Rabelais

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Christopher Hitchens

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

Oscar Wilde

Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

Richard D. Rosen

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men

Plato

It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.

Novak Djokovic

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Walford Bodie

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Etta James

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain

Right now, I had everything I could ask for. It wasn't a long list, but it was a very satisfying one, starting with the love of my life back in my arms.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Benny Bellamacina

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

Izabella Scorupco