I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I'd have more chance of doing everything right.

Kazuo Ishiguro

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

Plato

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!Against stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Samuel Butler

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler Yeats

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.

Anthony de Mello

If youth knew if age could.

Sigmund Freud

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

Jeremy Paxman

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Anthony Burgess

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

Nana Mouskouri