Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodne

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Thandie Newton

Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.

William Shakespeare

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Wallace Stevens

The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.

Mark Twain

When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?

Steve Maraboli

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Bill Wyman

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery

Thomas Jefferson

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Terry Pratchett

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Mahatma Gandhi