If there is a God, he is a malign thug

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Ivan Reitman

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

King Hussein I

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Martin Luther

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

H. L. Mencken

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

Paulo Coelho

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

Henry George

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.

Oscar Wilde