"The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation."

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”

“Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.”

Source : Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”

“The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.”

Source : Interview With Paul Eide, www.askmen.com.

“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”

“I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.”

“There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.”

Source : "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire" by Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2006.

“Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.”

Source : Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing