A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Benjamin Spock

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

Robert Wright

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Minna Antrim

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Muhammad Iqbal

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Antonio Gramsci

Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.

John Gay

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.

Orson Scott Card

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Ace Frehley

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

Stephanie Beacham

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Bob Brown