We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

Sir John Mortimer

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Warren Beatty

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Chanakya

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Adam Clayton

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic

Samuel Johnson

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Nastassja Kinski

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Herbert Read

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.

Gemma Malley

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Desiderius Erasmus

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Ernie Harwell