When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine the Great

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

Aristotle

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

Ezra Pound

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Raheel Farooq

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Anon.

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Anon., "North DeKalb Kiwanis Clu

I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars.

Neil Gaiman

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

David Cameron