Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

Nelson Piquet

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Kid Rock

What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr. Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical.'At all events, they work,' said Mr. Boffin.Ye-es,' returned Eugene, disparagingly, 'they work; but don't you think they overdo it?

Charles Dickens

Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

John Oldham

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

Jonathan Sacks

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

Simone de Beauvoir

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moli