Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Georg Cantor

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

Hugh Grant

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Christopher Lasch

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

Eleanor Clark

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Paul Walker

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia

A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.

Paulo Coelho

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Walter Lippmann

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Marcia Wallace

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.

Richard Bach

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Ethel Merman