Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

David Attenborough

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

J.K. Rowling

Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.

Kurt Vonnegut

A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard

Mark Twain

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Thornton Wilder

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adler

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.

African Proverb

Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.

American Indian Proverb, Anishin

proclaimed Donne, , and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies.

Neil Gaiman

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

Norah Jones