Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Susan Sontag

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Robert H. Schuller

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Lena Dunham

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

Tom Bosley

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

Janet Fitch

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Hume

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Nicola Foulston