It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Stephen King

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Adam Rickitt

She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

George Orwell

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Pope John Paul II

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jonathan Sacks

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa