I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

Ed Koch

When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sin get bigger right along with him.

Leo Tolstoy

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

Paulo Coelho

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Nhat Hanh

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Natalie Portman

When speaking, being present means you choose to respond rather than react, letting go of emotions and objections and remaining focused on what is to be achieved.

Suzanne Mayo Frindt

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Cassandra Clare

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Joseph Joubert

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.

Michelle Trachtenberg