And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

Gary Numan

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

Orson Scott Card

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Criss Jami

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Emile M. Cioran

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

James Madison

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Jeremy Bentham

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Charlize Theron

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Leo Tolstoy