They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Rick Springfield

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph J. Cudworth

The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.

Inigo de Leon

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Charles L. Allen

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Scott Brooks

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Paul Twitchell

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

Mike Norton

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Albert Camus

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog

Ambrose Bierce