Life is too important to be taken seriously.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Iveta Radicova

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

Virginia Woolf

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Terry Pratchett

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

William Hazlitt

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Bannister

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Shakti Gawain

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

Nadia Giosia

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Abraham Maslow

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Simon Wiesenthal

One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

Jim Nabors

Mr. Blumenthal stated that Monica Lewinsky had been a 'stalker' and that the president was 'the victim' of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman, ... Referring to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Blumenthal used the word 'stalker' several times.

Christopher Hitchens