The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Blaise Pascal

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Gunter Grass

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, Working for the King of Prussia.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.

Krisi Keley

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

Al Pacino

We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.

Richard Milhous Nixon

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

J. C. Watts

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Harold Blake Walker

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

Stephen Richards