Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Brendan Francis

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.

Janet Bettag

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

Steven Wright

Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

Source Unknown

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

G. W. F. Hegel

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

William Morris

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Shirley Knight

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel