War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Mary Wesley

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Nelson Mandela

Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.

William Shakespeare

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

Victor Hugo

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short

I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

Jacob Bronowski, Science and Hum

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Bill Cosby

Philosophy... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

Arthur Schopenhauer