Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Carl Gustav Jung

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Robert Collier

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

Donald Trump

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Johnny Depp

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

Paddy Ashdown

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

John Ruskin

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

Bertrand Russell

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Ronald Reagan

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Alexander Alekhine