Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.

Jami Gertz

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Anthony Doerr

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Alain de Botton

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime

Albert Einstein

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Sam Elliott

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

Uwe Boll

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.

Albert Schweitzer

Love is stronger than violence.

Hermann Hesse

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

William G. Dyer

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Sherwood Eddy

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Diane Wakoski