My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

Kevin Spacey

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Hans J. Morgenthau

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

Ambrose Bierce

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave

Samuel Hoffenstein

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is great food in Vegas.

Eric Ripert

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Henry Miller

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Henry Ward Beecher

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

Luke Wilson

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

Vin Diesel