All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Lao Tzu

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Arabella Weir

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Robert Runcie

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Josh Lucas

I was very sexual from a very young age.

Portia de Rossi

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Pe

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Grace Murray Hopper

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a laborer's fireplace will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.

Macmillan Magazine

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Baltasar Gracian