Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Terry Pratchett

Money just draws flies.

Mahalia Jackson

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Ronald Reagan

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.

Walter Benjamin

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

Leo Tolstoy

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Sophocles

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

Yani Tseng

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Aristotle

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Josh Billings

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

J.M. Coetzee