A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.