Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.

James Gordon Bennett

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Ambroise Valery

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Adrian Edmondson

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Roger Bacon

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Joseph P. Kennedy

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

Carol Vorderman

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

Estelle Morris

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Marvin Hamlisch

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

Bharati Mukherjee

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Enrico Fermi

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein