If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

William Shakespeare

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

C.S. Lewis

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Sloane Crosley

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aurelius

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.

Eric Hoffer

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

Ben Affleck

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Madame Swetchine

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela