Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Ben Hecht

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Ben Johnston

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Robert Kiyosaki

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Olen Steinhauer

Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light - every eye looking on finds its own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Amy Carmichael

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Neil Gaiman

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Charles Evans Hughes