There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

George Eliot

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

C.S. Lewis

The most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Michael Lipsey

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Christopher Hitchens

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Erich von Stroheim

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Jared Diamond

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Colin Powell

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Matt Blunt

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

Len Wein

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Audrey Hepburn

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

Ambrose Bierce