In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

Ovid

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

Martin Goldsmith

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Carter G. Woodson

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

Chuck Palahniuk

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Conrad Hall

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning, from Andrea Del

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Elizabeth McGovern

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

Steve Hackett

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Carol Shields

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Walter Lord

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal