With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Geoffrey Rush

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Gustav Heinemann

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Aristotle

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage

C. JoyBell C.

John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.

James Carville

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Glenn Beck

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Oscar Wilde

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight D Eisenhower