Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Rumi

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

Baz Luhrmann

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Jane Austen

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Neil Gaiman

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Judy Blume

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Max Irons

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem