I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Atât de mare e puterea adev?rului care, precum binele, se r?spânde?te de la sine.

Umberto Eco

One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

Epeli Hau'ofa

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

Charles Williams

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

Elihu Root

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

Source Unknown

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Anatoly Chubais

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.

Richard Feynman

...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Sir Richard Francis Burton