We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Nicholas Lea

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Sir Walter Besant

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Susan Sontag

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

Jeremy Taylor

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

David Byrne

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Cher

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

Liam Gallagher

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai Stevenson

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele