If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

Dave McKean

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Thomas Hood

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

John Nuveen

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

Leo Tolstoy

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Nathaniel P. Willis

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Mahatma Gandhi