Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hugo Ball

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life too seriously.

Geri Halliwell

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Karl Marx

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Jean Rostand

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Sloane Crosley

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Vladimir Kramnik

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Sarah Dessen

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Richard Dawkins