When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.