What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Jimmy Carter

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

Hillary Clinton

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Cox (physicist)

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Jesse Jackson

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Laura Schlessinger

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Venus Williams

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

John Key

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

E. O. Wilson