"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."

“Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.”

“Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness ...”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

“I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go back to sleep, mo duinne.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2022, Delacorte Press

“I still don't think I'm really a beautiful person, but I know that I can be beautiful inside.”

“All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.”

“If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.”

“The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.”

“A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.141, Amadeus Press