Die Leidenschaften lassen den Menschen leben, die Weisheit aber, lässt ihn überleben.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Harry Mathews

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.

Leo Tolstoy

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

Lee Myung-bak

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

J. B. Colbert

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Albert Camus

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Jason Bateman

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Sir Winston Churchill

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Gobel