A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Robert Morgan

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Oscar Wilde

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

It gets stuck in lingo

Paul Grupe

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

Richard D. Rosen

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

Quentin Crisp

I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

Abbie Cornish

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

Jonathan Sacks

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle