My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,— Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.

The present is big with the future.

Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Knowledge is power.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.

He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.