There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

You never monkey with the truth.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.