"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."

“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”

Source : William Rounseville Alger (1881). “The School of Life”

“Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2009). “Fallen”, Spectra

“We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire--you don't wish any such fate for your beloved.”

“They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.”

“You really are being quite foolish to smoke.”

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

“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”

Source : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.160, Tiger L.L.C.

“Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.”

Source : Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press

“We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.”