A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Neil Gaiman

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

Rufus Sewell

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

Christian Cooke

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night?

Steven Wright

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

Tom Hayden

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

George Eliot

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

Luellen Hoffman

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Tennyson