Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

George Santayana, Egotism in Ger

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Julie Burchill

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

John Johnson

Bedauern ist die Trübung des Geistes und nicht seine Läuterung.

Kahlil Gibran

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

King Hussein I

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

J.K. Rowling

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

Women love only those whom they do not know!

Mikhail Lermontov

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Myriam Miedzian