I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Archibald MacLeish

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Bill Nye

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

Ashley Madekwe

To whom God will, there be the victory

William Shakespeare

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Katherine Dunn

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

James Naismith

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joseph Joubert

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Calvin Coolidge

it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.

Evan Meekins

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children. One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

William Osler

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James Barrie