Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

Elihu Root

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

Alfred North Whitehead

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Bo Gritz

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Corazon Aquino

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

Hilaire Belloc

Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

Bear Grylls

Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.

C.S. Lewis

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Margaret Bourke-White

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Jose Marti

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

Half of writing history is hiding the truth

Joss Whedon