If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

Johann Lamont

When the thunder rumbles,Now the age of gold is dead.When the dreams we've clung toTrying to stay young,Have left us parched and old instead.When my courage crumbles,When I feel confused and frail,When my spirit falters on decaying altarsAnd my illusions fail --I go on right then.I go on again.I go on to say I will celebrate another day.I go on.If tomorrow tumblesAnd everything I love is gone,I will face regret all my days, and yetI will still go on.

Leonard Bernstein, from Leonard

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

Marquise De SeVigne

When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

LaToya Jackson

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we ar

Henry David Thoreau

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Huxley

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Simmons

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

Freeman Dyson

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Albert Einstein