Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

In order to fly, you have to be free.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.