It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Jacqueline KennedyOnassis

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

Vin Diesel

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sir John Denham

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C.S. Lewis

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

John Banham

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Marguerite Duras

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)

Christopher Hitchens

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

In love the only safety is in flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte