I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Peter L. Berger

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Jean de La Fontaine

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to ones self: The work is done. But just as one says that, the answer comes: The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains. The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

Nigel Lawson

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

Besa Kosova

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nestell Bovee

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Paul Wellstone

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Ingrid Bergman