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“Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.”
— Ovid
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
— Epictetus
“I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.”
— Richard Branson
“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”
— Albert Camus
“You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!”
— Carl Sagan
“In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.”
— Confucius
“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
— George Orwell