It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Martin Lawrence

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

George Orwell

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Shirley Hufstedler

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Mae West, Quoted in: David Ray J

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Ted Lange

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

David Byrne

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

J.K. Rowling

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Juliana Hatfield

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller