Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

William Shakespeare

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard M. Helms

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say Gentlemen to the person with whom he is conversing.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Alex Winter

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Ricardo Montalban

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Igor Stravinsky, "London Magazin

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

Gasmaskman