I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

David Herbert Donald

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Ernest Renan

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

Giada De Laurentiis

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

Shia LaBeouf

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Ben Elton

Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir final blazon, and to proveOur almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.

Philip Larkin

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

Harry Mendelson

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao Tzu