But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

Cassandra Clare

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

Vicente del Bosque

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

David Lynch

It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Ken Kesey

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

C.S. Lewis

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Victor Hugo

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.

E. M. Forster

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Virginia Woolf

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

George Kneller

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield