There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James Madison

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

William Shakespeare

Good order is the foundation of all great things.

Edmund Burke

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Alanis Morissette

The cinema may have a specific beauty of its own, but it does not permit that constant re-reading, that meditative brooding, those turning-back to passages heavily charged with meaning, which form the special pleasure of the novel-reader.

Andre Maurois

If you've lost your faith in love and music, oh, the end won't be long.

Carl Barat

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Andrew Jensen

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

Woody Allen, My Speech to the Gr

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

Jeb Bush