Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

William Pitt

We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble acts but we will be judged by our last worst act.

Michael Josephson

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

Taryn Manning

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Marlene Dietrich

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Walter Ulbricht

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

Angie Stone

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dominic Monaghan

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Sharon Stone

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott