Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.

Voltaire

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

Heston Blumenthal

Honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

George Orwell

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Thomas Aquinas

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

David Attenborough

Religion is a mixed blessing.

John Shelby Spong

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Camille Paglia

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Cullen Hightower

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Franz Liszt