I happen to be really a romantic.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

James Dyson

Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Lionel Shriver

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Madame de Stael

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Taylor Caldwell

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

Markus Wolf

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Billie Jean King

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Martha Plimpton