Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

J. Michael Straczynski

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Gilles Deleuze

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

J. J. Abrams

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

Source Unknown

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

Neil Kinnock

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Charles Kennedy

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

Shinzo Abe

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Ma

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Tammy Bruce