The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Harold Pinter

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert

Kahlil Gibran

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Ted Williams

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

Terry Pratchett

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

River Phoenix

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon De L'Enclos

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

Terence

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Winston Churchill