I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Custom is second nature.

Augustine of Hippo

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

D. J. Enright

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

George Santayana

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

John Prescott

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

John C. Ransom