The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.

Daniel Webster

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

Giordano Bruno

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Louise Suggs

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Peter Mullan

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms.

Mindy Starns Clark

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

Alfred E. Smith

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

Guy Ritchie

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Brian Eno

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Martin Luther King Jr.