Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Kurt Vonnegut

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Alain de Botton

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Thomas Aquinas

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Stephen Sondheim

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Gildersleeve

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Calvin Klein

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.

Julia Gregson

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Stephen King

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Amit Ray

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

G. K. Chesterton

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells