Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

Eric Clapton

Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless.

Mother Theresa

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

Paul Giamatti

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

W. Edwards Deming

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Javier Bardem

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the intolerable compliment. Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant it to be. But over the great picture of his life the work which he loves, though in a different fashion, as intensely as a man loves a woman or a mother a child he will take endless trouble and would doubtless, thereby give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

C.S. Lewis

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Henri B. Stendhal

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams