There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Dick Wolf

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

John Oldham

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Neil Gaiman

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Peter Nicols

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

Justin Theroux

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

R. Kelly

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Dave Davies

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.

William Saroyan

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Mahatma Gandhi

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Richard Dawkins