The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

Sem indivíduos, vemos apenas números: mil mortos, cem mil mortos, «as mortes podem chegar a um milhão». Com as histórias individuais, as estatísticas transformam-se em pessoas - mas até isso é mentira, pois as pessoas continuam a sofrer em números que são, em si mesmos, entorpecedores e desprovidos de significado.

Neil Gaiman

I used to be a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic.

Steven Wright

Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

William Cobbett

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Spike Milligan

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Cat Stevens

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

Harlan Ellison

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Howard Zinn

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Channing Pollock

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Pablo Picasso

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

Blaise Pascal