"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."

“Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families.”

Source : Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

“In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,”

“I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."”

“I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.”

“If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.”

Source : "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

“We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.”

“We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.”