Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officii

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Henry Ford

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

George Papandreou

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Norman Thomas

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Emma Thompson

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

James Northcote

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

George Carey

Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.

William Bailey

Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute.

C. G. Campbell

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Robert Fisk

Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all powerful. All the scholastic subtleties have neither added anything to nor subtracted anything from the acuteness of this paradox.

Albert Camus

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn, The Magic of Dan