That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking -- one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Present A

Not that I have the power to clutch my handWhen his fair angels would salute by palm,But for my hand, as unattempted yet,Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will railAnd say there is no sin but to be rich;And being rich, my virtue then shall beTo say there is no vice but beggary.

William Shakespeare, The Life an

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Victor Hugo

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

Iain Duncan Smith

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

John Wooden

Trust the tale, not the teller.

David Knopfler

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William Saroyan

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann von Goethe