Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

You know me, Esme. I couldn't subtract a fart from a plate of beans.

Terry Pratchett

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

Giorgio Napolitano

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Leo Tolstoy

You can't make wrong work.

Gerald Waterhouse

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Paul McCartney

And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.

Lina Kostenko

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

John M. Thomas

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

George Cukor

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes

Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse

Benjamin Franklin