Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Wim Wenders

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Naguib Mahfouz

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Thomas a Kempis

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Billy Graham

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.

Debbie Stabenow

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Roland Barthes

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Sir Thomas Browne

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Bill Kristol

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Nat King Cole

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Charles Monroe Schulz