Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

William Shakespeare

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Deborah Cox

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Arthur Brisbane

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Lucille Ball

Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Ambrose Bierce

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara