A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

William Makepeace Thackeray

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Albert Einstein

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

Hayden Fry

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Dave Eggers

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Newt Gingrich

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Richard Eyre

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather, The Business of

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

Zoe Kazan

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

LaoTzu

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering