"Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on."

“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.”

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.”

Source : "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

“I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.”

“They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.”

“Ask me if I sparkle and I’ll kill you where you stand.” (Bones)”

“Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.”

“Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.”

Source : "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

“No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.”