I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder, and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Abraham Lincoln

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

B. K. Sandwell

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Ella Maillart

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

J. August Strindberg

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Harry Lauder

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

Kyle Chandler

Depression is anger without enthusiasm

Anon.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Francesca Annis