In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Rene Mcpherson

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.

Albert Einstein

Come to accept that if your methods don't change, neither will your results.

Steve Maraboli

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Victor Borge

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Herbie Hancock

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sarah McLachlan

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Christopher Walken

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Anne Sullivan

Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.

Kabbalah

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

Catherine Deneuve

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Hugh Miller