The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.

Andrea Dworkin

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Rupert Murdoch

Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.

Nicholas A. McGirr

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Mike Tyson

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

Blaise Pascal

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moli

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.’”

Hunter S. Thompson

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Gisele Bundchen

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Rachel Stevens