I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Oscar Wilde

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Eva Green

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which,if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilites, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

C.S. Lewis

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

Joaquin Phoenix

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

Paulo Coelho

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

RuPaul

Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Benjamin Disraeli

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Henri Lefebvre

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb