We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Gouverneur Morris

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

Fred F. Fielding

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

Colley Cibber

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Groucho Marx

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

George W. Bush

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Jane Austen

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Steve Martin

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

George Osborne

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Julie Burchill