Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Stephen Bayley

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

Rachel Weisz

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Albert Einstein

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Guy Pearce

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

David Bowie

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

Germaine Greer

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Edith Summerskill

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

Peter Jennings

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)