Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

The Noble Lord advocates Union, what doth such a union mean? When the Smaller unites with the greater, what happens? The greater absorbs and engulfs the lesser, it is ever thus and so will be! There are ten times as many English as Scots. Think you then, when the ten becomes eleven, the eleventh will partner the ten? Or, be swallowed up by the ten? Is this what my Lord of Stair wants? An end to Scotland? The most ancient nation in Christendom, a kingdom when England was but a medley of warring tribes! Scotland, from whence Christianity spread to the English. Scotland, a people with their own Kirk and laws, their freedoms, customs and pride. Is all that for which our forefathers fought for untold generations, to be merely thrown aside for a mess of trading privileges and navigation rights? I would rather that Scotland sank to the bottom of the ocean rather than we lost one least part of our cherished Independence and ages old identity!

Andrew Fletcher, From the minute

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

Aaron Rodgers

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Samuel Levenson

You need to be silly to be funny.

William Shatner

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

Richard Siken

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann von Goethe

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre Gide

I love a black wedding dress.

Vera Wang

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Leslie Charteris

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

B. R. Hayden