Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Napoleon Hill

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Samuel Johnson

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Dean Acheson, from a speech in I

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Queen Victoria

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Henry Ford

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Julianna Margulies

I'm famous. That's my job.

Jerry Rubin

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, 'There she goes!' Gone where? Gone from my sight ... that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, 'There she goes!' there are other eyes watching her coming and their voices ready to take up the glad shouts 'Here she comes!'

Henry Van Dyke, A Parable of Imm

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Max L. Forman