The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

Proverb

This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedes McCambridge

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Virginia Woolf

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

E. M. Cioran

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Andre B. Buruch

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

James Baldwin

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

C.S. Lewis

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Glenn Frey

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Henry Kravis