Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire.... Greece will never see me again.

Eleftherios Venizelos

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

Sir Ronald Mason

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Julie Burchill

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Harry Seidler

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

John Dryden

I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Louis Macneice

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

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Patti LaBelle

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Chuck Palahniuk

I love my mom and dad.

Taylor Momsen

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Naguib Mahfouz