When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Rumi

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Daniel Radcliffe

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Everett M. Dirksen

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Jane Fonda

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Simone Weil

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Jean Nouvel

The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pt

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Neil Armstrong

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Jim Rohn

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Julie Burchill