This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Meyer Lansky

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Peter De Vries

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Source Unknown

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Elbert Hubbard

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Ethan Hawke

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

James Brown

The original story, whatever it was, was told to those who forgot some details and substituted others. The original is long lost in the restorations. They have had the composer accompanied by a gifted sister, who, the inflexible record shows, died years before the song was written. They have seated him at the prim old spindle-legged mahogany desk in the hall at Federal Hill and had him dash it off in the frenzy of inspiration. Or they have followed him to the rocks of the old spring house, whither they have sent him, pencil in hand, and counted the frowns of agony with which he laboriously set down now a strain of melody and again a phrase of words. They have heard him trying it out with the deep booming bass voice of him who had never more than a weak but sweet light baritone. Every writer of it has himself for the hero and has described it as he would himself have acted it before the grand audience of posterity. These various stories cling about Federal Hill, the outgrowth of the human desire for contact with the vague figures of the past.

Young Ewing Allison, writing abo

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Herbert Samuel