If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Georges Clemenceau

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Ray Bradbury

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Quem diria que as palavras que nunca chegamos a dizer assentassem tão pesadamente?

Jodi Picoult

All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.

Swami Ramdas

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

Jeremy Renner

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

John Ruskin

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Auberon Herbert, The Right and W

Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

A. E. Housman

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biolo

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

Rafik Hariri