Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.

Roger Kaplan

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Frank Dane

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

Don Bluth

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Suzanne Lafollette

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Leo Buscaglia

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

Bobby Knight

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Marcello Mastroianni

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Norman Jewison

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

George Bernard Shaw

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Henry David Thoreau

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

John Lennon