The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhower

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Albert Einstein

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Sidney Sheldon

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Jane Smiley

We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can give help to, or get help from, that's part of your obligation.

Bill Murray

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.

Todd Phillips

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz