All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

Marquis de Sade

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

George Orwell

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

Drew Carey

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Arlo Guthrie

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Bobby Unser

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Leo Burnett

Sex is excitement, seeks satisfaction and soon loses interest - selfishness. Making love is passionate, fulfilling and does not look for an end - selflessness.

Barry Long

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus.

Cassandra Clare