Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Stephane Mallarme

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Dickens

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

John Ruskin

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Bertrand Russell

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

He wasn't lying. If he had had it he would probably have given it to her, unpleasant though it usually is to make such generous gifts: of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.

Gustave Flaubert

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

David Seabury

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount, Jr.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

A. E. Housman

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Ayn Rand