The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical

Andrei Tarkovsky

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard M. Nixon

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

Ben Kingsley

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Sarah Caldwell

I just wish I could understand my father.

Michael Jackson

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Julia Ward Howe

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Ricky Williams

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Clarice Lispector