Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

James Baldwin

I love seeing my family.

Mia Wasikowska

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Barack Obama

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni

Inactivity is death.

Benito Mussolini

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Errol Flynn

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Barry Corbin

Overexposing my innards to careless hearts and hands is a practice I am prepared to stop performing.

Coco J. Ginger

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

Sylvia Earle

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard Devoto