Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Brian Eno

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Johann von Goethe

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Frank F. Warren

She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.

Orson Scott Card

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Charlie Sheen

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Danny Boyle

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Homer, Iliad

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.

Lewis Carroll

After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).

Gerhard Kocher

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

Rosa Luxemburg

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid