"Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east."

“Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.”

“By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.”

“To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!”

“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”

Source : Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

“What! All this for a song?”

Source : To Queen Elizabeth, on being ordered to make a gratuity of £100 to Spenser in return for some poems, in Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queene' (1751) 'The Life of Mr Edmund Spenser' by Thomas Birch

“If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself”

“'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.”

“The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.