We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Keith Richards

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

William Shakespeare

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Fernando Flores

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

David Cameron

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Albert Einstein

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war.

Benjamin Franklin

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Ray Bradbury

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela