It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

Gil Stern

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Heinrich Heine

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Jennifer Hudson

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

Fidel Castro, "The Economist", A

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

John le Carre

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Kennedy

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Clarke

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.

Margot Asquith

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Patricia Clarkson