The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Frank Auerbach

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

Source Unknown

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

Chris Christie

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Virginia Woolf

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Nigella Lawson

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

William Shakespeare

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

Peter Jurasik

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

Toba Beta

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare