[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

William H. Macy

Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

King Henry IV of France

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Erin Morgenstern

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Twyla Tharp

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Matthew Prior

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

Sally Pearson

I love to hit people. I love to.

Mike Tyson

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Johann von Goethe

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Olivier Martinez

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

Lal Bahadur Shastri