What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art.

George Santayana

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

Blaise Pascal

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

Eric Cantona

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Pierre Bonnard

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

George S. Patton

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

Jonathan Sacks

The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.

James Allen

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky