There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

Honore de Balzac

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Ville Valo

I dont care who you are I know who I am

Sandra Cameroun

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

May Sarton

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Alan Rickman

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Thomas Jefferson

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Maya Lin

Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most

Buck Williams