Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Barry Goldwater

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

Emmanuelle Beart

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Ernie Harwell

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

Tom Cruise

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Steve Forbes

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

Donald Cargill