"I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up."

“Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.”

Source : Suetonius (1997). “Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men”, Loeb Classical Library

“The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful”

“Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave this world quietly before they got sucked into this horrible massacre. Nothing was more important to him than her. There was no room for compromise. If this were what her trembling soul wanted, then he would follow her. Had he been more eloquent he might have described his feelings as something like, "I'm going to die for her honor." Their two bodies danced in the air beyond the cliff, their hands still clasped together, the black sea under them.”

“I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.”

“Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.”

“I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.”

Source : "The Draft: Just Say No" by Ron Paul, original.antiwar.com. February 17, 2009.

“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.

“The problem is someone will try to convince you That they know the answer no matter the question Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world 'Cause it's just ..... crazy - you know that it is”