"We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would ***** it, it seems quite otherwise."

“My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.”

“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”

“If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...”

Source : Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India

“There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.”

“And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.”

“The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.”

“Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.127, Rodale

“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.”