Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

Terry Pratchett

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Japanese Proverb

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Rudyard Kipling

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike

Jacob Bronkowski

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Kenneth L. Pike

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Sarah Palin

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Theresa May

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Jeremy Taylor

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

Haruki Murakami

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Green