Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Susan Rice

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Pierre Charron

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Abba Eban

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Colin Farrell

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Baltasar Gracian

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Neale Donald Walsch

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

Katie Couric

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

David Nicholls

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Ernest Partridge

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Faith Hill

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Frederik Pohl

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Michael Fassbender