We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Lyall Watson

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

William Whitehead

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Abbie Hoffman

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Lord Chesterfield

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Pele

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Jerry Saltz

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

John Marquand

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

James Brown

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Vince Cable