Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent.

Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them.

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.