Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Albert Einstein

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

George J. Mitchell

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Kristen Stewart

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Liz Phair

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

King Abdullah II

Love happens in the strangest places at the strangest times.

Andrew Sturm

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

Richard Buckminster Fuller