"Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung."

“The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.”

Source : "Ed Balls: Yorkshire beef and Westminster lasagne parties" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

“My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the Iran Accord and get nowhere with this. There might be more US sanctions on Iran. However, the Iranians will not compromise with Trump, and barring a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf, it will be US businesses that will suffer and Trump's frustration level that will go up.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.”

“Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?”

Source : Isaac Watts (1831). “The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts”

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”

“As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2012.

“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

“UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.”