All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

Mychal Wynn

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Holly Black

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Minna Antrim

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Denis Diderot

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Bertrand Russell

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Dwight L. Moody

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Albert Einstein

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Francis Adams

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

Krister Stendahl