New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Og Mandino

You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.

John Green

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

Andrew Motion

I don't come from money.

Christina Ricci

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Samuel Johnson

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Lawrence Summers

My reputation grows with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.

Mahatma Gandhi