Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore, revisionist history should always be suspect. Better still, all history should be suspect.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

James Patterson

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

Julia Child

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Wilson Mizner

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

Norman Cook

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

Geraldine Brooks

Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?

Deion Sanders