Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.