Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Cyril Connolly

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Jean Baudrillard

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

Christina Aguilera

RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Ambrose Bierce

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Cullen Hightower

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Walter Lippmann

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Arthur Bloch

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry L. Lewis

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Theodore White