How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

James Kent

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Hugh Jackman

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Marshall McLuhan

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.

Morris Bergman

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Shelley Winters