All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Nelson Mandela

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

Shelley Berman

Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Freeman Dyson

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Huston Smith

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.

Stephen King

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Moore

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

Source Unknown

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Ayn Rand

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth

The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!

Stephen Richards