I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Una rosa se despertó en su sangre y ensombreció sus mejillas. Un agitado aliento separó los pétalos de sus labios, que temblaron. Sobre ella sopló algún viento sur de pasión y movió los delicados pliegos de su vestido

Oscar Wilde

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

Ethan Hawke

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Victor Hugo

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.

Richard Edwardes

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Stephen King

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

Eric Cantor