You can't trust anybody with power.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

William Hazlitt

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Roger von Oech

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Diane Keaton

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Florence King

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

Johnny Winter

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Gary Oldman

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII from

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Thomas Hardy

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Bill Nighy