In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Religion is no more national than conscience.

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

Sometimes all you need in your life is anything strange because strange things can revive your soul just like a cold water freshening your pale face with every splash!

The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.

Example has more followers than reason.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.