How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

David Crosby

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Matthew Macfadyen

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Edward Gibbon

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

John Cornyn

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friedrich von Schiller

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Robert Reich

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

David Wilkerson

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.

Patti Roberts

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.

Lucy Powell