Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.

St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents in the bonnet, which distinguished it from the more common and less powerful XR3i.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

One wild card was yet to be played.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.