There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

George Clooney

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Scott Cook

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Jesse Jackson

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Moliere

One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her print dress and white apron to array herself in blue and pearls, the day changed, put off stuff, took gauze, changed to evening, and with the same sigh of exhilaration that a woman breathes, tumbling petticoats on the floor, it too shed dust, heat, colour; the traffic thinned; motor cars, tinkling, darting, succeeded the lumber of vans; and here and there among the thick foliage of the squares an intense light hung. I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning. I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry.

Virginia Woolf

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Nathaniel Lee

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

Eric Hoffer

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

W. Somerset Maugham

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

Cordwainer Smith

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil