My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

Curtis Joseph

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.

Peter Townsend

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Alfred Adler

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

Thomas Jefferson

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

J. M. Synge

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

General Douglas MacArthur

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

Ed Markey

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Steve Martin

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

Allen West

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Jodi Picoult