At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

My cool judgement is, that if all the other doctrines of devils which have been committed to writing since letters were in the world were collected together in one volume, it would fall short of this; and that, should a Prince form himself by this book, so calmly recommending hypocrisy, treachery, lying, robbery, oppression, adultery, whoredom, and murder of all kinds, Domitian or Nero would be an angel of light compared to that man.

John Wesley

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

Dominic Monaghan

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

Lao Tzu

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

William Blake

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Robert Browning

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

Lactantius

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

Michael Leboeuf

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

Frederick Wiseman

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

Kim Clijsters