This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Hannah Arendt

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

William Shenstone

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Johnny Depp

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong, You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

Alicia Witt

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

I praise loudly, I blame softly.

Catherine II of Russia

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Thomas Carlyle

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

David Ogilvy

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Leif Garrett

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

Brenda Ueland

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

J. Paul Getty