Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because theres never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money. – Murray Walker
I think the success of democracy is not really police security its the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. – King Abdullah II
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis de Sade
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if youre well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think theyre used to seeing me walking around, so I dont think Im a very big deal. – J. K. Rowling
