No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

George Bernard Shaw

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

John le Carre

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Sir Thomas Browne

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

Francesca Annis

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Angeline M. Bishop

Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.

Dylan Lauren

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Ernie Fletcher

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Donald Norman

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Lord Chesterfield

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Alan Greenspan

We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

George Orwell