The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Thomas Carlyle

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

Jack White

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

James Callaghan

Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.

Cassandra Clare

Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.

Warren Buffett

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Alphonsus Liguori

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Henry David Thoreau