"Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions."

“Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

“The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.”

Source : "August 18: Ray Kelly, Sybrina Fulton, Benjamin Crump, Ben Jealous, Richard Engel, Sen. Jack Reed, Vali Nasr, Robin Wright, Robert Gibbs, Rich Lowry, Donna Edwards, Chuck Todd". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 18, 2013.

“Dad always says that I could sing before I could talk”

“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”

“William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.”

“We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.”

“One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.”

Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.