A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai Stevenson

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Samuel Beckett

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Marcelene Cox

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Nina Bawden

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

William Shakespeare

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Bernard Baruch

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain

On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Blaise Pascal

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

W. H. Auden

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Elizabeth Hurley