Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Frances Wright

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Mason Cooley

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton

The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Rosamond Lehman

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Mark Caine