All you need to be recognized as an authority is to be recognized by a recognized authority

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.

I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

I think for the next 50 years I'm not going to be able to stop because of the light that you shine for me and so many millions of Americans.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.