Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Oscar Wilde

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Gustav Mahler

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Taraji P. Henson

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Sarah Orne Jewett

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without a licence; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.

Charles Dickens

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Dean Inge

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

George D. Boardman

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Robert Rainy

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Bob Woodward

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Adolf Hitler