Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Paulo Coelho

...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...

John Geddes

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Confucius

When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world

Gossy Ukanwoke

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Lawrence Oates

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Bill Cosby

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

Rodney Dangerfield

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Aristotle

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

Demian Bichir