Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.

Ludwig van Beethoven

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

George Combe

He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.

Orson Scott Card

A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvellously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.

Anne Bronte

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

Josephine Hull

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Robert Benchley

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

Armstrong Williams

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb