Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

Carrie Fisher

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Christiane Amanpour

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cynthia Ozick

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don't learn safety rules simply by accident

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Martin Amis

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Tony Kushner

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

George Osborne

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Martin Short

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Sir Walter Besant

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Edward de Bono