It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

Greta Scacchi

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

Christina Ricci

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Queen Elizabeth II

Humor is the whole truth.

Frigyes Karinthy

And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Solomon Ortiz

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Pat Riley

Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

Warren Farrell

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

Ruth Handler