My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Stephen Harper

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Ang Lee

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James A. Michener

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sarah McLachlan

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Sir Richard Steele

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

Maurice Blanchot

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Charles Dickens

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

John C. Granville

'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold