If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

Lena Headey

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

Laurie Frankel

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Benjamin Disraeli

When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope should be high on the list. This man drives himself and is driven. It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that would kill most people.

John Steinbeck, Once There Was A

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

May Sarton

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Kathleen Turner

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Robert Duvall

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Oscar Wilde

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Emma Bonino

O how can beautie maister the most strong, / And simple truth subdue avenging wrong?

Edmund Spenser

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Salvador De Madriaga