An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Rudyard Kipling

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Frank O'Hara

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Carl Sandburg

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Ioanni

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

David O. Russell

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Goldwin Smith

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Michael Crichton

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Hillary Clinton