Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

Virginia Woolf

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Everett Dirksen

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

David Friedman

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Terry Pratchett

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Friedrich Schiller

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

Cheryl Tiegs

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Garry Trudeau

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Madeleine Albright

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Rufus M. Jones