Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

Norman Lear

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Paul Samuelson

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

Piety is not an end but a means to attain... the highest degree of culture. This is why... those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

Chamfort

There are a good many books, are there not, my boy? said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the shelves that reached from the floor to the ceiling.A great number, sir, replied Oliver; I never saw so many.You shall read them if you behave well, said the old gentleman kindly; and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides, - that is, in some cases, because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Are you planning on following a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?' asked Scrimgeour. 'No, I'm not,'retorted Hermione. 'I'm hoping to do some good in the world!

J.K. Rowling

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Brandy Norwood

At the fruit of existence, there is a single concept of anonymity. This unknown concept is well known however. All one has to do is simply look behind the mirror for the answer. Yet, the answer won't come until the right question is asked. Because the illusions of reality are dressed in endless reflections, the blind will continue to be guided by the blind. The unknown concept is recognized to those who have tasted the fruit of existence, and as distant as the woman trying to grab Heaven from the reflection of an empty pond.

Lionel Suggs

We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Ida R. Wylie

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

Virginia Woolf

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Hector Berlioz