Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Albert J. Nock

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Charles Dickens

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Giuseppe Mazzini

My body gets weak without truth.

Andrei Platonov

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Beverley Mitchell

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Sir Winston Churchill

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Diablo Cody

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Jodi Picoult

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.

Thomas Moore

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Clint Eastwood