I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.

William Leith

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Charles Baudelaire

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Mary Decker Slaney

Imitation is suicide

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

Ally Condie

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal (MarieHenri Beyle)