Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Ruth Rendell

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Source Unknown

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Bethenny Frankel

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D Eisenhower

My dad took me to my first movie.

Steven Spielberg

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Haruki Murakami

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

Bill Bradley

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

Dan Marino

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero