I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Benjamin Franklin

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Leon Spinks

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

Paulo Coelho

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Tom Robbins

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

William Hurt

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

Julie Delpy

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

Grete Waitz

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

Ralph Nader