Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who speak truth to power but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Jena Malone

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is…we were made for another world.”

C. S. Lewis

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis de Sade

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Voltaire

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

W. H. Auden

Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, Now, let's write a swimming pool.

Paul McCartney

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Jodi Picoult

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

J.K. Rowling

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller