One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato The Elder

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Buffalo Bill

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Xun Zi

Follow the best way of life you possibly can, and habit will make this way suitable and pleasant to you.

Leo Tolstoy

we try so hard to live free, only to die and be confined to a brass prison

Onwuka Emeka

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

Tom Hiddleston

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Oscar Wilde

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

Elizabeth Arden

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

James Belushi

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Judd Nelson