To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

There was truth in Diaz's logic, yes: our line of work is like that. Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.

Imre Kertész

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

David Herbert Lawrence

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Robert Graves

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Orson Scott Card

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Matthew Arnold

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Georges Bataille

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Christopher Columbus

Rance: Were your relations with your secretary normal? Prentice: Yes. Rance: Well, Prentice, your private life is your own affair. I find it shocking none the less.

Joe Orton

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

Jerry Jeff Walker

A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.

Ronald Colman