The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and Turkey the two most prominent ultra-right nationalists had both been born in Cyprus. The most extreme Irish Republicans are in Belfast and Derry (and Boston and New York). Sun Yat Sen, father of Chinese nationalism, was from Hong Kong. The Serbian extremists Miloševi? and Karadži? were from Montenegro and their most incendiary Croat counterparts in the tended to hail from the frontier lands of Western Herzegovina.

Christopher Hitchens

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

Sir John Chadwick

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

Julie Benz

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Smiles are the language of love.

David Hare

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

A.A. Bell

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

Rachel Stevens

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

Every choice you make has an end result.

Zig Ziglar

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

Life is fired at us point blank.

Jose Ortega y Gasset