Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Leo Tolstoy

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Mario Batali

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

Barry Sanders

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Mark Hopkins

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time

Arab Proverb

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Marilyn Monroe

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two C

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

Stephen Hawking

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

David Cameron

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Andrew Cuomo