Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?

Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.

Erma Bombeck

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Simone Weil

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

Leo Tolstoy

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Albert Camus

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.

F. W. Nichol

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Thomas Carlyle

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

Jack Klugman