My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated -- concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

Rene Carayol

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

Frederick Pollock

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat

The Law

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Edward Gibbon

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

George Bernard Shaw

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Dave Barry

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

Theresa May

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Andrew Sullivan

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Dhani Harrison