"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell."

“My cat can eat a whole watermelon.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rubin Farr". "Rubin and Ed", www.imdb.com. 1991.

“To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?”

“Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart

“The only power you have is the word no”

Source : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

“The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.”

Source : "Power? Thanks, but I’d Rather Have Influence". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2011.

“The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.”

“In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12