The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.paraphrased as: Behind every great fortune there is a crime

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Mitch Albom

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Noam Chomsky

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Duhamel

Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all.

Kevin Dalton

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

Ellen DeGeneres

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Charles Sumner

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Keith Miller

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Anthony Hopkins

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.

Henry David Thoreau

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Alfred Nobel

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Harold Pinter