In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Soldiers are citizens of deaths grey land drawing no dividend from times tomorrows.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

Fear the Greeks bearing gifts.

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring tolerant just and peaceful life for all.

I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant that it is nourishing and easily digested that it does not cause the same harmful effects to feminine beauty which are blamed on coffee but is on the contrary a remedy for them.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

Power to the peaceful!

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.