It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

Nick Clegg

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Rachel McAdams

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Clarence Darrow

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

Richard Bach

If sex were all, then every trembling handCould make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

Wallace Stevens

If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

James Barrie

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (f

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte