Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Sidney Blumenthal

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

Michael Kiwanuka

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

Paul Haggis

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

Thomas Jefferson

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

Elton John

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Lee Iacocca

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Roger Waters