Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Alain French

Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Oscar Wilde

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Bertrand Russell

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

Michael Fassbender

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

Christopher Hitchens

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

Joan Collins

Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Louisa May Alcott

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

John Neal

When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?

Steven Wright

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Bill Hybels

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras