OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Aristotle

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Samuel Johnson

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Thomas Carlyle

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Paul Robeson

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Cameron van der Burgh

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

J. Paul Getty

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Leslie Stephen

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Luc De Clapiers

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Henrik Ibsen

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Deborah Bull

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Lloyd Alexander