Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Robinson

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

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

Angela Merkel

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

Source Unknown

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

Selena Gomez

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Conan O'Brien

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

David Mamet