Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Jenny Agutter

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

Desmond Tutu

Habit is second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Richard E. Griggs

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

Clive Barker

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

William Arthur Ward

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Jonny Lee Miller

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude LeviStrauss