Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Tucker Carlson

Love is magic in its rawest form.

Anne Rainey

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Paul Lynde

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

Sting

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

Brother Lawrence

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Jean Anouilh

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Francesca Annis