To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

James Bovard

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

Anton Chekhov

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.

Anon.

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Steve Maraboli

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Carl Sagan, The DemonHaunted Wor

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Alexander McQueen

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Carl Zwanzig

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

George Bernard Shaw