Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Edwin Louis Cole

And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

Leonardo DaVinci

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Casey Stengel

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Joseph De Maistre

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Edith Wharton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Owen Meredith

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

Michael Haneke

Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Theocritus

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri