The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Pharrell Williams

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Margaret Sanger

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Steven Wright

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

Estelle Morris

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

John Howard

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Alain Badiou

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch