Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

George Orwell, Why I Write

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

Stevie Wonder

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

Justice delayed is justice denied.

William Ewart Gladstone

Don't ask questions of fairy tales.

Jewish Folk Saying

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think, without question, that unemployment of more than 6 per cent is something to be concerned about. You don't push the panic button, but you don't relax and enjoy it either... I myself don't believe in a numbers game in which you give a maximum tolerable percentage, because I think, truly, it does vary with the times... I would hesitate to specify the figure today, but I will say this: it would be, in my mind, less than a 4 per cent figure - that is, for the period ahead. I would not, realistically, think we could hope for a 2 per cent figure in the near future, as certain European countries have been able to do. But I do think that if we are pretty zealous in this matter and insist upon getting low figures - say, 3.5 per cent - then our very success in accomplishing that may lead to a new epoch just beyond when we could hope to go below 3 per cent...

Paul A. Samuelson, (interview),

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. The skies and the lands are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated into a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.

Ansel Adams, from A Letter to Al

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Harvey Weinstein

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Stephen Richards