It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Boothe Luce

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

John Stuart Mill

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

George Bernard Shaw

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

Christian Bale

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

Phyllis Schlafly

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

Norman Tebbit

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Adolf Loos

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

Sebastian Vettel

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

Peter Singer

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

Hillary Clinton