Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

The money will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

Terry Pratchett

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Horace

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.

Confucius

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Walt Disney

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

Gael Garcia Bernal

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

Abraham Lincoln

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Linda Evangelista