The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.