the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

Pratibha Patil

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Boothe Luce

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

He kill them with they love, John said. They love for each other. You see how it was? I nodded, incapable of speech. He smiled. The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. That's how it is every day, he said, all over the world.

Stephen King

How many are the things I can do without!

Socrates

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Neil Gaiman

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Samuel Johnson

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Giovani della Casa

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Princess of Wales Diana

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

Zac Efron

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

Women love a self-confident bald man.

Larry David