Help is not help until it is given, so turn your intentions to help into acts of help. We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our actions.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Bill Kristol

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Chris Fabry

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Placido Domingo

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Jonathan Swift

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Daniel Webster

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Jet Li

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Sydney J. Harris

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James Whistler

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Barbra Streisand