Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Alexander Smith

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Georges Braque

Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare

Pray, and let God worry.

Martin Luther

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Gertrude Stein

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.

Cyril Connolly

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Lucy Powell

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Simon Newcomb

I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset

Javan

Keep breathing.

Sophie Tucker