And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Lemony Snicket

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Ronald Graham

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

J. C. Watts

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Meg Ryan

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Havelock Ellis

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Euripides

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Karl Lagerfeld

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Michael Ignatieff

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld