War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Christopher Hitchens

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Jan Mckeithen

Like what you do, and then you will do your best.

Katherine Johnson

Her face was a synthesis of perfect symmetry and unusual proportion; he could have gazed at it for hours, trying to locate the source of its fascination.

J.K. Rowling

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Brian Eno

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Chaucer

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Lady Gaga

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin P. Adams

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Oscar Wilde

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move...

Robert Louis Stevenson