Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Johnson

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

Justin Long

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Daniel Barenboim

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Cooper

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Robertson Davies

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Henri B. Stendhal