The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Laura Riding

Love is only one of many passions.

Samuel Johnson

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Jimmy Cannon

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

Michael Chertoff

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Henning Mankell

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Isabel Allende

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

John Ashbery

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

Ernesto Guevara