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No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

When the guys test for the steroids, they should have no more fights.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.