It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys. I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance: but a countryman shall be my master of revels. He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Natu

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Source Unknown

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Helen Hayes

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Johnny Rotton

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Gregory David Roberts

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Roger Moore

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.

Joseph Addison

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Jean Piaget

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Socrates

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn

If I can't be remembered as one of the greatest authors, why not be remembered as the sexiest writer...

Hans Lindor