At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

John Shelby Spong

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

Mark Twain

It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Mark Twain

O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

John Keats

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

Serena Williams

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U. Thant

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

Overcome the devils with a thing named love.

Bob Marley