They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Gus Van Sant

You have every right to a beautiful life.

Selena Gomez

Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)

Proverb

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

Joel Osteen

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Thom Yorke

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Gustav Jung

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms

Albert Einstein