Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, Humour studies would that be, sir?

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William James Mayo

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. Last words of Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Robert Plant

I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

Oscar Pistorius

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Gene Simmons

I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

Ashlee Simpson

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anthony de Mello

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

Confucius

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Johnny Carson

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln