I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Who dares deny that this is true: The whole is more than all its parts?A whole love than divided love,Or than half love from fifty hearts?Yet who dare either this deny:The part is more than is the whole?That treasures halved with one dear loveAre more than double to the soul?

Arthur Dillon

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Karl Marx

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

Salman Rushdie

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Thomas Carlyle

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Leo Durocher

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Christina Aguilera

It is God who lets the wild apples grow, to satisfy the hungry. He showed her a wild apple-tree, with the boughs bending under the weight of the fruit. Here she took her midday meal, placing props under the boughs, and then went into the darkest part of the forest. There it was so still that she could hear her own footsteps, as well as the rustling of every dry leaf which bent under her feet. Not one bird was to be seen, not one ray of sunlight could find its way through the great dark boughs of the trees; the lofty trunks stood so close together that when she looked before her it appeared as though she were surrounded by sets of palings one behind the other. O, here was solitude such as she had never before known!

Hans Christian Andersen, The Wil

Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is. I ask no comfort, Taran replied, but the truth, be it harsh or happy.

Lloyd Alexander

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace