Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

Orson Scott Card

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Khaled Hosseini

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

Anne Frank

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Brian Eno

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Sir Thomas Browne

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara Tuchman

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.

Andrew Matthews

What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.

Sir Isaac Newton, letter to his

Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.

William Shakespeare

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Abhishek Bachchan

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Richard Dawkins