Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Francesca Annis

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Philip Roth

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Nicholson Baker

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

Suzanne Vega

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Erich Fromm

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Edmund Burke

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Jack Welch

Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck's back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted.

Geoff Dyer