Indira Gandhi

“Never eat more than you can lift”

– Porcine star of stage and screen

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”

– Edith Sitwell (a British poet and critic)

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

– Agatha Christie (an English writer)

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

• Xun Kuang, known as Xunzi (a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the 3rd century BC)