Angry people are not always wise.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Lee H. Hamilton

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Omar Bradley

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

Harold Bloom

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Jean de La Fontaine

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Terry Pratchett

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

David Mamet

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Margaret Thatcher

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

David Baldacci

The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.

John L. Graham

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

Laura Prepon

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King