Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

Bill Nighy

If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! -- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends -- those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that!

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

Rachel McAdams

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

P. G. Wodehouse