Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Oscar Wilde

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Virgil Thomson

She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.

Orson Scott Card

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Kahlil Gibran

Individualism, as a definition of holding to personal ideals, is classed as obstinacy and anti-social. Inevitably we run point blank into the evils of compromise. When compromise enters our moral fiber, it spreads like a cancerous growth. We think we plan adequate safeguards around areas in which we contemplate yielding our standards, but once we lower the fence and break our strong will to do right, come what may, we expose ourselves to forces that spread beyond control. Compromise always starts on some rather insignificant principle. The dangers of yielding seem negligible and we usually risk those things first where observation and detection by others is difficult. We thus seek to avoid censure and discipline. In a short time we find ourselves trading our principles for false values and doing it in the black market of human relationships. . . .

Ralph W. Hardy

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

Elihu Root

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Neil Gaiman

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Kate Beckinsale