If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Theresa May

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Gabriel Heatter

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Walter Benjamin

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Before I explain my book to others, I expect them to explain it to me. To claim to explain it first is to immediately narrow down its reach; for if we know what we intended to say, we do not know whether we said only that. - One always says more than THAT. - And what interests me most is what I put in without knowing, - that unconscious share, which I would like to call God's share.

Andre Gide, Paludes Marshlands

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Thomas Carlyle

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Robert Hass

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Charles Stanley

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Oscar Wilde

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

George Eliot

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

Georgette Heyer