Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

Marcia Wieder

We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Cyril Connolly

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard Milhous Nixon

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Christopher Morley

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Paul Hawken

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Julius Erving

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Jackie Chan

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

Arthur Laffer

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich.

Anon.