"To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems."

“But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.”

“The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts ...”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

“I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.”

Source : "The Adolescent Mind of Washingtonienne" by Juliet Eastland, www.alternet.org. October 20, 2004.

“Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights”

“The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.”

“Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.”

“And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.”

“Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”