Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Polly Toynbee

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Louis Kronenberger

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Rene Char

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Cesar Romero

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden.

Stephen Richards

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

Kimbra

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

Frank Lloyd Wright