In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Donald Curtis

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Eric Hoffer

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

Danica Patrick

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

Ron Luciano

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Charles Kennedy

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Andrew Bogut

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Herschel Hobbs