The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Samantha Barks

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

E. M. Cioran

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Yogi Berra

The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Now the trumpet summons us againnot as a call to bear arms, though arms we neednot as a call to battle, though embattled we arebut a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulationa struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

William Gilbert

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Johann von Goethe