Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Melissa Marr

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Kirsten Dunst

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Bill Watterson

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Polly Toynbee

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John C. Ransom

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Wendy Liebman

Our life would become wonderful if we could see all the disgusting things which exist in it.

Leo Tolstoy

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller

I will only add, God bless you.

Jane Austen

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

John F. Kennedy

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov