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?

The movie business is a big gamble.

Jackie Chan

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Marguerite Duras

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.

Eric Shinseki

It is action that creates motivation.

Steve Backley

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

James Cash Penney

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Tony Buzan

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

Claire Forlani

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Galileo Galilei