Learn to think impartially.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Learn to think impartially.

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are the freer you are.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

The Model Sanctuary is not about self-indulgence - it's about reminding and allowing them to become self-sufficient human beings. I wanted to alert people to the fact that we're not the victims, but nor are we the villains. We want fair practice and positive, sustainable change, working with the fashion industry, not against it.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man—not to make any invidious comparison—is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.