Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation no entity large or small public or private can thrive or survive intact with debts as huge as ours.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty nasty unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him and I hope he survives it.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Each of us needs something - food liquor pot whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved nor can it survive without an adequate food supply.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating very few survive.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know when large famous groups breakup a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

When I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life I would not have survived without my faith.

Jews survived all the defeats expulsions persecutions and pogroms the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people even the Holocaust itself because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

If you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

All living beings not just animals but plants and microorganisms perceive. To survive an organic being must perceive - it must seek or at least recognize food and avoid environmental danger.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.