Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

The law always limits every power it gives.

David Hume

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jesse Jackson

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

William Bligh

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

Nils-Axel Morner

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Norman Jewison

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

William Warburton

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Zooey Deschanel

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Karl Von Clausewitz