We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Emily Greene Balch

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

John Howard

I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative.

Maurice Greene

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

LouisFerdinand Celine

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

Ken Follett

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Neil Sheehan

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Havelock Ellis

Why are you killing me for your own benefit? I am unarmed.' 'Why, do you not live on the other side of the water? My friend, if you lived on this side, I should be a murderer, but since you live on the other side, I am a brave man and it is right.

Blaise Pascal

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Dale Carnegie

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William John Bennett

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Daniel Libeskind