Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.

Henrik Ibsen

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Ferdinand Mount

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Oscar Wilde

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?

Sarah Slean

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Lou Reed

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Elijah Wood

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Barack Obama

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

Vin Diesel

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Sam Mendes