I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Samuel Butler

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

William Pitt

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

Orson Scott Card

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

Charlize Theron

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nicole Kidman

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Manmohan Singh

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

Cavett Robert