Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Oscar Wilde

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Mary Ann Mobley

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Pam Brown

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

Joan Rivers

The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.

Mark Twain

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Slaughter

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Robertson Davies

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor Adorno

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Doris Lessing