Salvador Dali

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.