When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann von Goethe

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

Stephen King

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

George Bush

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Steve Martin

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Yahoo Serious

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Mario Testino

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Juan Montalvo