The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

Lech Walesa

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Ben Kingsley

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Robert Collier

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

Patricia Amis

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

David Attenborough

A good example is the best sermon.

Benjamin Franklin

I have personal knowledge that Mr. Blumenthal recounted to other people in the journalistic community the same story about Monica Lewinsky that he told to me and Carol Blue.

Christopher Hitchens

She isn't very clever or very devout,... and she certainly empties the whole salt cellar into the stories she tells me. But I love her because she never lies.

Georges Bernanos

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

Aldous Huxley

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Stephen Richards

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe,to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life -this is the commonest delight of the race,the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner