As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

James Buchan

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Source Unknown

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !

Tom Evans

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion.

Marquis de Sade

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

Douglas Coupland

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

C.S. Lewis

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

Khandi Alexander

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Edward Tufte

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Mark Twain