Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Paul Muldoon

The more laws, the less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Kurt Russell

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Michel de Montaigne

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

Michael Aston

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Dominique de Villepin

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Mick Jagger

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

Steve Maraboli

My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and - and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!

Charles Dickens, David Copperfie

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Jude Law

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato