We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so few died. (Our side meaning the lantern-jawed Joh...
Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or w...
The stones of my native country are warmer than the ovens of Babylon.
The country where flowers are expensive lacks the foundation of culture.
The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.
The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a p...
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary vie...
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it ...
Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the mus...
The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.
There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
