I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Julie Bowen

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Arthur Machen

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Michael Haneke

The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.

Lord Milverton

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Gordon Lightfoot

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

Compay Segundo

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

J.K. Rowling

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

Source Unknown

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Ralph Nader

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France