The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

Self-trust is the first secret of success

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Lea Seydoux

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Arthur Henderson

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Henry David Thoreau

She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buc

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Sir Winston Churchill

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Harrison Salisbury

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde