Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Prince Andrew

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Aldous Huxley

Incompetent people are, at most, 1% of the problem. The other 99% are good people trying to do a good job who make very simple mistakes and it's the process that set them up to make these mistakes.

Lucian Leape, M.D. Patient Safet

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

Dick Clark

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dean Kamen

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Friedrich Schiller

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Paulo Coelho

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

Hill Zaini

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla