Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Anthony Trollope

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Jason Statham

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

John Maynard Keynes

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Friedrich Schiller

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

Miley Cyrus

La educación moral, que no debe nunca ser racional en modo alguno.

Aldous Huxley

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Dr. Armand Hammer

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

Kevin Kelly