We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Karl Von Clausewitz

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Stephen Collins

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Albrecht Durer

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Wilson Mizner

Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Denzel Washington

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that it is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Shannon A. Thompson