All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism!

I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.

No matter what's going on in life, I can emerge myself into a game and I love it. Outside of my family, it's the love of my life.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Girls know when they're attractive.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.