"Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to."

“For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.”

“The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry.”

“A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.”

Source : "The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975". Book by Gough Whitlam, 1985.

“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”

“Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists”

“To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

“I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.”

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

“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.”