Glory is the child of peril.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Euripides

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Francis Bacon

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Peter Jackson

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Henrietta Szold

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Leo Tolstoy

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Gary Burton

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Georg Buchner

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Anthony Burgess

You only have one day at a time to live, so live it and choose well!

Laura Boniello

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?

John Buchan