War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble acts but we will be judged by our last worst act.

Michael Josephson

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

T. S. Eliot

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Cristina Saralegui

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

Max Beerbohm, Quia Imperfection

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Albert Brooks

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

Aldous Huxley

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

General George Patton

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Edward W. Howe

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Ernest Hemingway

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy