I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

A Corrupt is Correct for a Corrupt.

B B Susheel Kumar

Shun security.

Thales of Miletos

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Ronald Reagan

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Mark Twain

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

Jean Vanier

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Dag Hammarskjold

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

W. C. Fields

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Thomas Keller

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.

John Morley