James Russell Lowell

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.