The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

Life is Temporary, and in life everything is temporary

I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet.

The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved.

Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.