A despairing, shell-shocked war soldier in Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’:

“Twenty two years old,weak,hot,frightened,not daring to acknowledge the fact that he didn’t even know who or what he was…with no past, no language, no tribe, no source, no address book, no comb, no pencil, no clock, no pocket handkerchief, no rug, no bed, no can opener, no faded postcard, no soap, no key, no tobacco pouch, no soiled underwear and nothing nothing nothing to do…”

ALEXANDER POPE

People should never be ashamed to own they have been in the wrong,which is but to say they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

JOHN P ROCHE

In politics,a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

W C FILEDS

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

CHESTER BOWLES

Government is too big and important to be left to politicians.

B F SKINNER

Education is what survives when what you have learnt has been forgotten.

GOETHE

They who seize the right moment,are the right people.