"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on Peace
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"Seek peace, and pursue it. [Proverbs 34:14]"

Bible on Peace
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"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo on Pain
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"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Bergman, Ingrid on Happiness
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"Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others."

Bierce, Ambrose on Happiness
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"Our true nationality is mankind."

Wells, H.G. on Race and Racism
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"I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin."

Tutu, Bishop Desmond on Race and Racism
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"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on Pain
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on Love
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

Pavese, Cesare on Pain
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on Love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on Love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on Love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on Love
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Nonviolence
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on Stupidity
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"Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it."

Twain, Mark on Nations
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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

Will, George F. on Pessimism
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on Pessimism
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Famous Last Words
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"Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant."

Swayze, John on Nations
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"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

Twain, Mark on Nations
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"It is far easier to make war than to make peace."

Clemenceau, Georges on War and Peace
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

Brebner, J. Bartlett on Nations
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"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."

Bradbury, Malcolm on Nations
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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."

Kubrick, Stanley on Nations
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"The French complain of everything, and always."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Nations
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"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

Singer, Isaac Bashevis on Pessimism
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"In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."

Readon, Daniel on Pessimism
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

Marquis, Don on Pessimism
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"A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him."

Pound, Ezra on Jesus Christ
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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on Peace of Mind
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"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."

Baldwin, James on Persecution
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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on Pessimism
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"If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning."

Cannon, Damien on Pessimism
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."

Shaw, George Bernard on Nations
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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Garofalo, Janeane on Pessimism
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"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."

Goldwyn, Samuel on Pessimism
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"I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist."

Harvey, Paul on Pessimism
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Keller, Helen on Pessimism
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