The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Anita Brookner

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine, attributed at hi

Words derive their power from the original word.

Meister Eckhart

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Yoshihiko Noda

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

Tim Meadows

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Leo Tolstoy

Success is not to discover what others like, it is to acquire and practise the skills that help one gain their love.

Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Paul Rudd

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde