Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Lao Tzu

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?

Jesse Ball

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Voltaire

I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan

George Orwell

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James Buchan

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Miley Cyrus

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.

Jonathan Potter

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Thomas Alva Edison

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Karen Armstrong