Thus weary of the world, away she hies,And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aidTheir mistress mounted through the empty skiesIn her light chariot quickly is convey'd;Holding their course to Paphos, where their queenMeans to immure herself and not be seen.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Nigella Lawson

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Jeffrey Kluger

Jesus said several times, Come, follow me. His was a program of do what I do, rather than do what I say. His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Spencer W. Kimball

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Wieder Marcia

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Iain Duncan Smith

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Friedrich von Schiller