Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Shaun Cassidy

Travel is a fools paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Mia Maestro

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs, 1914

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Antonio Banderas

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

Diablo Cody

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Joyce Meyer

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Norman Mailer