Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Thomas Carlyle

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Tim Allen

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

Economized love is never real love

Honore de Balzac

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.

Milan Kundera

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

Cher

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Patrick Kavanagh

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Nora Roberts