Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Ludwig van Beethoven

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thomas W. Higginson

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Angelina Jolie

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Marcus du Sautoy

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Fran Lebowitz

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Michael J. Fox

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

Bear Grylls

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

William Styron

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Buffalo Bill

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Ted Turner