There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Dominic Cooper

If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast.

Terry Pratchett

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Paul Hindemith

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Pablo Picasso

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Shirley Conran

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Serge Lang

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Etta James

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cynthia Ozick