As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Steve Guttenberg

How strange it was that man could neither brookThe presence nor the absence of his look!

Farid Attar

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann von Goethe

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

J.K. Rowling

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Alicia Keys

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Francis Wright