Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

The actual well seen is ideal.

Thomas Carlyle

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Ben Okri

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

John Quinton

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Sachin Tendulkar

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Tom Conti

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Tom Brady

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Stephen Gardiner