Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

Patrick Swayze

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal (MarieHenri Beyle)

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Henry James

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Francis Bacon

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Roger Ebert

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Sidney Sheldon

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Tadao Ando

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Hugh Leonard

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Bill Gates

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Ashley Tisdale

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Jay Garner