"In politics nothing is contemptible." Jean-Baptiste Colbert
"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow." Philip James Bailey
"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race." Margaret Sanger
"The infinitely competent can be uncreative." John Edensor Littlewood
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa
"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid! What sane man is not?" Luciano Pavarotti