Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

William Hazlitt

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Jim Butcher

To do a great right do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Mitch Kapor

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

Roy Lichtenstein

Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action.

Brian A. Brown

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve

Geoff Colvin

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

William Blake

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Dennis Prager