Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

Natalie Wood

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

John Jay Chapman

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Kevin O'Leary

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar Bradley

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you?Gildor says this in response to Frodo saying Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of th

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Paul Ryan