Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

William Penn

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Helen Gahagan

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Michael Graves

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Otto Herman Kahn

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Carrie Underwood

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Tony Blair

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Thomas Szasz