We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.

Felix Alba-Juez

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Francis Bacon

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Cassandra Clare

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

Kahlil Gibran

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Robert Sternberg

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Usain Bolt

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Bertha von Suttner