Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

Vaclav Havel

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Henry Rollins

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Laurence Sterne

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Jean Anouilh

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Sally Kirkland

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.

Alan Shearer

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

Francesca Annis

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

She put snow on the mountain's / peak for me and took the Gallup Poll of my imagination. / She is both the V-Hold and popular fiction of my life. I write / her letters daily, which I'm then prompted to discard. She / engineered several corporate mergers until I couldn't resist / temptation.

Carson Cistulli

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

Proverb