Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.

T.F. Hodge

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Amos Lee

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Karel Capek

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

Serena Williams

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

Jo Nesbo

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

William Howard Taft

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died

Mark Twain

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

Alfred Tennyson

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

Emily Maguire