Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Give up trying to make me give up

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.