In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.

Abraham Lincoln

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny the Elder

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Thomas Jefferson

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

You can miss a person you've never known.

Jodi Picoult

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Ahmed Chalabi

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Russell Crowe

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Dinesh D'Souza

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

John Lasseter

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde