At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge aquired through those experiences.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.