"The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease."

“I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.”

“In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'”

Source : "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

“The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!”

“The schools of the country are its future in miniature.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

“We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.”

Source : Timothy Geithner's speech at the House Financial Services Committee, March 26, 2009.

“The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”