"Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst."

“There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.”

“The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”

“Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.”

“There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

“If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.”

“I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.”

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.132

“The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.”