There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Russell Brand

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

John C. Maxwell

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

William Ames

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Marilyn Monroe

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

Frederick William Faber

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

Rand Paul

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

To lead people walk behind them.

LaoTzu

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Walter Lippmann

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.

Gus Van Sant

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks