But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Alexander Hamilton

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Rabindranath Tagore

As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved. That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been, or will be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell

Our best history is still poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Samuel Lover

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Brenda Ueland

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

Eliot Engel

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Edward W. Howe

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

Arabella Weir

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

Danny Boyle