"Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones."

-- Nelson Rodrigues

“People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.”

Source : "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, January 16, 2009.
“The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.”
“It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse
“People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.”
“All things come to those who go after them.”
“The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.”
“Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]”
“He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.”

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