Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Haruki Murakami

Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.

Ali Bin Abi Thalib

You are not what you seem. So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?

Orson Scott Card

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Daniel Day-Lewis

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Otto Frank

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

George Osborne

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.

Oscar Wilde

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Mary MacLane

I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.

Sarah Chalke

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Joseph Heller

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Christian Nevell Bovee