I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Jean de la Bruyere

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

Marlene Dietrich

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

James Baldwin

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so you have to give it everything you've got.

Tim Cook

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

Tony Blair

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.

G.K. Chesterton

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

Heather Graham

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Voltaire

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Austin O'Malley