We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

Action is the universal language of success.

Steve Maraboli

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

And where love ends, hate begins

Leo Tolstoy

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

Jonathan Davis

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

Antoine De SaintExupery

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Jon Meacham

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

Bill Condon

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Terry Pratchett

I bought an echo and you bought a gecko... stuff.

Leslie Hochsztein