I still don't like going to bed alone.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fuller

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light

Benjamin Franklin

Not to ask is not be denied.

John Dryden

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Samuel Butler

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Cher

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Margaret Thatcher

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

P. G. Wodehouse

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Zinedine Zidane

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Sue Monk Kidd

Had he and I but metBy some old ancient inn,We should have sat us down to wetRight many a nipperkin!But ranged as infantry,And staring face to face,I shot at him as he at me,And killed him in his place.I shot him dead because--Because he was my foe,Just so: my foe of course he was;That's clear enough; althoughHe thought he

Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed