Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Alex Campbell

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

Kate Atkinson

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. In the movie Braveheart

William Gordon Wallace

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Mahatma Gandhi

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Billy Sheehan

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Thomas Browne

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

Allyson Schwartz

For the barbarians were not only at our gates but within our skins. We were our own wooden horses, each one of us full of our own doom. ....these fanatics or those, or crazies or yours; but the explosions burst out of our very own bodies. We were both the bombers and the bombs. The explosions were our own evil - no need to look for foriegn explanations, though there was and is evil beyond our frontiers as well as within. We have chopped away our own legs, we engineered our own fall. And now we can only weep, at the last, for what we were too enfeebled, too corrupt, too little, too contemptable to defend.

Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last

It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty.

Alfred Jarry

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

Christopher Walken

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kofi Annan