To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

They want me to immolate myself, and I sincerely believe that for some of them, when they see bad news from Iraq, the reaction is simply 'This will make Hitchens look bad!' I've been trying to avoid solipsism, but I've come to believe there are such people.

Christopher Hitchens

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

At about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. They made a good impression on me, which Gandhi himself at that time did not.

George Orwell

My reputation grew with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

Emm Gryner

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Charles Chaplin

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Toni Morrison

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Sarah Brightman