I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.

Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grav

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Rod Stewart

No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Cesare Pavese

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Blame is safer than praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann von Goethe, attributed; u

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

James A. Froude

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Clinton

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Ellen DeGeneres

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

Terry Eagleton

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

Stephen Richards