"You are as good as the people you dress."

“Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on the edge of the mantelpiece. His eyes drifted around the room, then fixed on my face. For an instant, they blazed clear and pellucid with intelligence. "och, easy, Sassenach, If ye can stand up, you're not drunk." He let go of the mantelpiece, took a step toward me, and crumpled slowly onto the hearth, eyes blank, and a wide, sweet smile on his dreaming face.”

“I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.”

“You can’t live for God until you learn how to live because of God.”

“We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.”

Source : "French Election: Hollandaise" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. May 7, 2012.

“After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.”

Source : The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 8

“Fact: If you don’t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.”

“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”

Source : Samuel Daniel, George Sewell (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..”, p.375

“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.”