Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

He made the city Athens, great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

Plutarch

l'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son désir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde naît de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence déraisonnable du monde.

Albert Camus

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Hugo Pratt

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

Clay Aiken

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Gordon Ramsay

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Mariel Hemingway

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Mike Krzyzewski

American Beer is a lot like making love on a canoe - it's fucking close to water.

Eric Idle

Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.

Virgil

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Bobby Jindal

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Eminem