A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

Seth Rogen

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert

The wisest have the most authority

Plato

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.If you're kind that's it.

Roald Dahl

An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.

Source Unknown

What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?

Friedrich Hölderlin

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

Todd Tiahrt

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

David Puttnam

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Sir John Vanbrugh