Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert

[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

George Orwell

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Charles Simmons

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Susan Sontag

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.(published in New York)http://freefeel.org/wiki/AGuideForGrownUps

Antoine De SaintExupery, Flight

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Johann G. Seume

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

Michael Leunig

I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.

Duff Goldman

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Ed Miliband

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus