We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Robert Smith

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism...and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

Margaret Thatcher

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Plato

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Joseph Addison

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death

Plato

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

William Mathews

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Frank A. Clark

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Kahlil Gibran

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman