If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Martin Lewis Perl

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Jackie Collins

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X Cringely

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

Chloe Moretz

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

V. S. Naipaul

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

Barack Obama, Claiming Democrati

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mahesh Bhupathi

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Samuel Johnson

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Kobe Bryant

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Eric Ries